Can you pick the element symbol that goes with each of these element names?

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Element to Symbol Match Quiz

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Created Mar 28, 2012 in Science
Featured Apr 24, 2013
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	defineexistence:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 17:20 GMT		9 points
	So many I knew but I got tricked by similar choices

	buJ:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 17:50 GMT		18 points
	Thallium, thulium, thorium. shakes fist

	Xolotl123:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 18:12 GMT		1 point
	Quoting Info "Only the 114 elements with official IUPAC names". The Official IUPAC Name for Cs is Caesium.

	sproutcm:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 18:27 GMT		3 points
	According to IUPAC, ' “Aluminum” and “cesium” are commonly used alternative spellings for “aluminium” and “caesium.” ' Ironically, they do not consider the sulphur spelling used by the UK to be acceptable at all. I never realized that.

	Xolotl123:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 18:37 GMT		0 points
	Yes, they are listed as commonly used spellings, but on the IUPAC's periodic table, Caesium and Aluminium are used primarily, and not the other way round. I still use Sulphur, only when they change Phenyl to Fenyl etc. then I'll consider it :P

	WJB1:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 19:23 GMT		1 point
	Anoyingly, I got a few obvious ones wrong, including Arsenic, which I was working with today. Part of what I was doing involved clicking a button with 'As' on it multiple times, but I somehow failed to do that this time!

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	DerekH:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 20:20 GMT		6 points
	I'll need to look through my old books and papers to see if I have a periodic table from my schooldays. I'm sure most of these elements didn't exist back then... ;-)

	Jeffhabfan:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 22:22 GMT		3 points
	It depends on the country, cuffeee. North Americans spell, and pronounce it, aluminum. This was the name given to it by it's discoverer/isolater when he first published his findings. It was only later changed to aluminium by those who thought aluminum "...has a less classical sound."

	armadilloking:	Apr 25th, 2013 at 01:10 GMT		9 points
	Iodine Thorium-Indium-Potassium Thorium-Iodine-Sulfur Iodine-Sulfur Vanadium-Erbium-Yttrium Fluorine-Uranium-Nitrogen

	beanyk:	Apr 25th, 2013 at 02:38 GMT		-1 points
	I found this quiz to be mechanically flaky. Most of the time, the bottom row symbols were impossible to click for me.

	biziclop:	Apr 25th, 2013 at 11:40 GMT		5 points
	The trick for me was to pass those that I wasn't 100% certain I knew, in the hope that ambiguity will have been resolved by the time they come around again. And most of the time it indeed did.

	Rayavi:	Apr 25th, 2013 at 16:51 GMT		2 points
	I can specifically blame thallium and thulium for having to take this more than once.

	zamboni:	Apr 25th, 2013 at 18:05 GMT		3 points
	To further confuse things, Davy also used alumium.

	mentalmike:	Apr 26th, 2013 at 07:48 GMT		1 point
	Tiredness cost me 100%...although that said it would have been 113 and antimony by default :s

	redhawk87:	Apr 27th, 2013 at 14:26 GMT		1 point
	note to self, if your not 100% sure, skip and come back to it. This happened too many times: "Rhenium? Rh. D'OH Rh is Rhodium, Rhenium is Re" I realize my mistakes a split second after I click.

	Tabs:	May 13th, 2013 at 22:36 GMT		1 point
	Curse you, palladium, praseodymium, protactinium, and promethium.