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Answers are Elements #2

All the answers are chemical elements. For each selected clue, guess the element.
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Last updated: May 6, 2020
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First submittedNovember 2, 2013
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Clue
Answer
One of the planets
Mercury
Thermonuclear weapon
Hydrogen Bomb
Followed the Bronze Age
Iron Age
Every cloud has one
Silver Lining
Type of venomous snake
Copperhead
Swimming pool sanitizer
Chlorine
Superman's home planet
Krypton
Nutrient that makes bananas
slightly radioactive
Potassium
Radioactive gas lurking in
your basement?
Radon
Its atomic symbol is Au
Gold
Clue
Answer
The poison of kings
Arsenic
Oz denizen with no heart
Tin Man
Common treatment for bipolar disorder
Lithium
Yellowcake is a type of this
Uranium
Method of determining an object's age
Carbon Dating
Most-hated rock band?
Nickelback
Common car battery
Lead-acid
Breathing this makes your voice higher
Helium
Highest strength to weight of any metal
Titanium
Makes up about 53.3% of the
weight of quartz
Oxygen
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Level 82
Jan 6, 2014
fun
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Level 84
Jan 8, 2014
Bromine should be accepted for a swimming pool sanitizer.
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Level 9
Mar 5, 2014
but who is going to say bromine over chlorine?
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Level 84
Jun 9, 2014
People that use Bromine in their pool...
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Level 71
Aug 15, 2015
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/10-health-dangers-of-bromine/
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Level 24
Nov 18, 2015
Um... potassium is reactive, not radioactive.
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Level 72
Jan 14, 2016
Nope, it's also slightly radioactive. in fact you absorb more radiation eating a banana than you would in a day living within a 10 miles of a nuclear power plant
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Level 61
Apr 20, 2018
Chernobyl? Fukushima? I'll stick to bananas. :)
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Level 75
Feb 23, 2016
An isotope of potassium - potassium 40 - decays into argon. Potassium-argon is one of the more widely used methods to date rocks, along with Sr-Rb and U-Pb. In fact, carbon dating is a particularly poor way to date rocks (too old, no carbon). It is a very good way to date organic material that's typically much younger than rocks.
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Level 39
May 5, 2020
K-40 is a common radionuclide as others have pointed out but to another point, bananas aren't uniquely rich in potassium - potatoes have more, for example
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Level 74
Apr 12, 2016
One of the planets: plutonium
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Level 66
Apr 23, 2019
-nium is not found in the name of any planet or dwarf planet.
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Level 60
Feb 3, 2021
i think they mean without the -ium
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Level 76
Aug 11, 2021
Of course they do, but with the "-ium" the answer isn't an element.
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Level 74
May 9, 2016
Grantdon's right, the convention is to spell it 'aluminium', in line with most other elements, but the bloke who discovered it called it 'aluminum'.
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Level 76
Aug 11, 2021
That's the convention in some countries, like the UK. Others, like the US, still spell it "aluminum."
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Level 58
May 9, 2016
I just learned about using lithium in mood stabilizer drugs in psychology last week.
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Level 71
May 9, 2016
I read somewhere that if you're worried about the harmful effects of banana radiation then you needn't worry since one would have to eat something like 15 million bananas for there to be any effect of radiation, and you'd likely die of indigestion long before that!
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Level 61
May 12, 2016
Made a guess that the "poison of kings" was polonium.

My brain: "Am I misspelling it?? It's, like, Shakespearean, right? Hamlet? Didn't Hamlet use polonium? Wait. Polonius. Polonius is a character in Hamlet. Ok, time to go to sleep."

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Level 84
Oct 17, 2017
"Strength-to-weight" should be hyphenated, especially if you're not going to follow it with "ratio".
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Level 43
Jul 27, 2018
Lithium could be car batteries and cyanide could be poison
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Level 76
Feb 26, 2020
Cyanide is not an element
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Level 88
Aug 2, 2018
Hemlock is the ‘poison of kings’ whereas arsenic is the ‘king of poisons’.
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Level 65
Dec 20, 2018
No idea howmuch truth in this, but I like this (sentence) a lot :)
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Level 47
Oct 14, 2018
SIPPIN ON STRAIGHT ______________
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Level 69
Apr 21, 2020
Chlorine! One of my favourite songs!
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Level 66
Apr 23, 2019
I like these quizzes, but #2 copied a lot of the same elements as #1. And some of the repeats were arguably easier. Maybe switch it up more in terms of difficulty and new elements.
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Level 69
Oct 19, 2019
I kept trying "uranium" and "neptunium" for "One of the planets". I got confused by my native language in which the names of these elements are exactly the same as names of Uranus and Neptune but mercury sounds nothing like Mercury.
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Level 58
May 6, 2020
You mean venomous, not poisonous. Poisonous refers to something that is eaten or inhaled, like a poisonous mushroom. Venomous is something that can deliver poison, like a venomous snake.
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Level ∞
May 6, 2020
Okay, fixed.
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Level 67
Jun 3, 2020
Interesting, didn't know about the quartz
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Level 66
Sep 11, 2020
I spent ages trying americium for the radioactive gas in basement cause americium is used in smoke alarms as it decays and emits radiation
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Level 68
Oct 19, 2021
"Breathing this makes your voice higher": Helium is the obvious answer, but technically this discription counts for any gas that has a lower density than common air, meaning hydrogen should also work.
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Level 49
Jan 18, 2022
battery acid
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Level 70
Oct 30, 2022
i don't get what radon has to do with basements
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Level 33
Nov 22, 2022
its actually sulfuric acid in car batteries not lead acid
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Level 59
Mar 27, 2023
The plates inside the battery contain lead.
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Level 67
Feb 8, 2024
Phew, no alunimum spelling debates!