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Elements by Year of Discovery

Can you name the elements on the periodic table by the year in which they were discovered?
Year it was first isolated, not necessarily date of actual discovery
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries
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Year
Element
~9000 BCE
Copper
~7000 BCE
Lead
~6000 BCE
Gold
~5000 BCE
Iron
Silver
~3750 BCE
Carbon
~3500 BCE
Tin
~2000 BCE
Sulfur
~1500 BCE
Mercury
~1000 BCE
Zinc
~815 CE
Arsenic
Antimony
Year
Element
~1000
Bismuth
1669
Phosphorus
1735
Cobalt
1735
Platinum
1751
Nickel
1766
Hydrogen
1772
Nitrogen
1774
Chlorine
Manganese
1777
Oxygen
1781
Molybdenum
1782
Tellurium
1783
Tungsten
1797
Chromium
1802
Palladium
Tantalum
1803
Iridium
Osmium
Year
Element
1804
Rhodium
1807
Potassium
Sodium
1808
Barium
Boron
Calcium
Magnesium
Strontium
1811
Iodine
1817
Cadmium
Selenium
1821
Lithium
1823
Silicon
1824
Aluminium
Zirconium
Year
Element
1825
Bromine
Titanium
1828
Beryllium
1841
Uranium
1842
Lanthanum
1843
Yttrium
1844
Ruthenium
1861
Rubidium
1862
Thallium
1864
Niobium
1867
Indium
Vanadium
1875
Cerium
Gallium
1879
Erbium
Year
Element
1879
Holmium
1879
Samarium
1879
Scandium
1879
Thulium
1885
Neodymium
Praseodymium
Thorium
1886
Fluorine
Gadolinium
Germanium
Terbium
1882
Caesium
1894
Argon
1895
Helium
1898
Krypton
Year
Element
1898
Neon
1898
Xenon
1901
Europium
1902
Polonium
Radium
1903
Actinium
1906
Lutetium
1907
Ytterbium
1909
Radon
1922
Hafnium
1927
Protactinium
1928
Rhenium
1937
Technetium
1939
Francium
1940
Astatine
Year
Element
1940
Neptunium
1941
Plutonium
1944
Americium
Curium
1945
Promethium
1949
Berkelium
1950
Californium
~1950
Dysprosium
1952
Einsteinium
Fermium
1955
Mendelevium
1961
Lawrencium
1966
Nobelium
1969
Rutherfordium
Year
Element
1970
Dubnium
1974
Seaborgium
1981
Bohrium
1982
Meitnerium
1984
Hassium
1994
Darmstadtium
Roentgenium
1996
Copernicium
1999
Flerovium
2000
Livermorium
2002
Oganesson
2003
Moscovium
2004
Nihonium
2009
Tennessine
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