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Elements by Picture

Can you name each element by a picture commonly associated with it?
Quizmaster note: This quiz requires common sense. Don't be a whiner!
The answers must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
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Last updated: March 22, 2018
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First submittedMarch 8, 2018
Times taken42,496
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WolfCam
+15
Level 66
Mar 22, 2018
I though the lightbulb would be argon
Stewart
+5
Level 68
Mar 22, 2018
The majority of old filament light bulbs use tungsten filaments in the middle of them, not sure about argon.
mightythor
+15
Level 66
Apr 3, 2018
I have heard most of the old ones are gone.
stevediverse
+6
Level 90
Mar 22, 2018
My first guess was argon. Argon is inert and used in some bulbs to prevent oxidation of the filament. Other bulbs use a vacuum to void the bulb of oxygen.
Freestatebear
+5
Level 85
Mar 22, 2018
Correct. Smaller bulbs typically have a vacuum; bigger ones usually are filled with an inert gas such as argon - in the US at least.
ctleng76
+1
Level 65
Jul 14, 2022
The process used to create that vacuum is simple but fascinating to watch.
roleybob
+4
Level 75
Mar 23, 2018
+1 argon
travelfan
+7
Level 67
Mar 23, 2018
My first guess was tungsten, never thought of anything else. I,d never heard of argon being used in light bulbs before.
Malbaby
+8
Level 71
Mar 30, 2018
Tungsten is the filament that glows, Argon is used as a gas inside the bulb.
nanook
+1
Level 51
Apr 22, 2018
Me too.
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 75
Jul 14, 2022
Argon was absolutely my first guess too.
Nachtschicht
+2
Level 58
Jul 14, 2022
Tungsten, never heard of ordinary lightbulbs filled with argon.
BlackLab
+1
Level 65
May 23, 2023
Ditto. Took a while for tungsten.
cpgatbyu
+4
Level 85
Mar 22, 2018
That's the Grohnde nuclear power plant, and it uses both uranium and plutonium. (Environmentalists weren't too happy about the latter.)
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Mar 22, 2018
Plutonium will now be accepted also, once it's been reapproved :)
plattitude
+8
Level 92
Mar 23, 2018
Were environmentalists happy about the former?

But really, are environmentalists ever happy?

tshalla
+12
Level 75
Apr 21, 2018
I, for one, am confident that the relevant authorities around the world will operate nuclear power plants safely, including protecting them from earthquakes, floods, wars, and all other natural and social disasters, and will store radioactive materials in ways that won't cause any problems in the 500,000 years or so it will take for that waste to be safe. I can't really see what could go wrong.
Cheviot
+2
Level 88
Nov 30, 2018
Our opinions about nuclear power have no bearing whatsoever on the answer to a quiz question.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Aug 12, 2019
Even factoring in the worst nuclear disasters in history, and using the most liberal estimates for casualties from Chernobyl, etc., nuclear power has still killed fewer people and done less damage to the environment than coal or oil.
barmanitan
+3
Level 78
Sep 1, 2019
@kalbahamut Is part of that not just because it's been around for less time?
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 80
Jul 14, 2022
Nope. It actually is much safer. Coal mining is extremely dangerous, and the sheer amount of coal that is required to run a plant only exacerbates the issue. Much less uranium needs to be extracted to run a nuclear plant, and the continued improvement in nuclear technology has made it much safer than when Chernobyl and Three Mile Island occurred. Even then there were relatively few deaths associated with the incidents.
ctleng76
+3
Level 65
Jul 14, 2022
Nuclear power is actually a great answer to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. We just need to accept the fact that there are risks with everything we do. Nothing is ever 100% safe, nor is it ever 100% perfect.
QRU
+5
Level 74
Mar 22, 2018
May you accept Wolfram for tungsten?
stevediverse
+2
Level 90
Mar 22, 2018
That makes sense, since the symbol for Tungsten is W (for Wolfram).
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Mar 22, 2018
Have added as a type in once it is reapproved!
ToonH
+1
Level 61
Apr 25, 2018
or Natrium for Sodium in that case...
Nachtschicht
+1
Level 58
Jul 14, 2022
I second that, it's acronym is Na
sillie
+2
Level 77
Mar 22, 2018
A very cool quiz!
buck1017
+5
Level 77
Mar 22, 2018
I totally typed Chrome as a joke. Thanks for accepting it. :-)
Devvik2
+1
Level 70
Apr 23, 2018
Haha! That's funny!
ReyFer
+1
Level 64
Mar 23, 2018
why uranium???

I could only see grass, concrete and water there...

travelfan
+2
Level 67
Mar 23, 2018
Probably because the majority of nuclear power plants such as the one depicted are commnly known to use uranium :).
TomatosRaafatos
+7
Level 73
Apr 21, 2018
But that's the thing. Looking at that picture, all I could see are a couple of cooling towers, which are not exclusively used in nuclear plants but in other types of power plants and factories as well. Didn't cross my head at all that it was a nuclear plant. I kept thinking of water vapor, which isn't an element, so I started typing air elements like Oxygen and Nitrogen. It's either I am extremely delusional or that clue needs a more specific picture.
Zefyrinus
+3
Level 71
Apr 21, 2018
HatemAli: you are extremely delusional.
tom98784
+2
Level 28
Oct 15, 2018
My first thought was sulphur due to scrubbing it from the emissions of coal plants using electrostatics, but got it in the end.
CardinalSin
+3
Level 77
Jan 5, 2020
I agree with hatemAli. Most cooling towers that I see are associated with conventional (fossil fuel) power plants. I could see nothing in the picture that suggested otherwise and so I too was trying carbon, oxygen, hydrogen etc. I think a better photo is needed.
ctleng76
+1
Level 65
Jul 14, 2022
Most (not all) coal fired power plants I have seen (and my work has taken me to quite a few) don't use the hyperbolic style cooling towers. In my opinoin it is fair to assume that the use of hyperbolic cooling towers suggests a nuclear power plant.
daraconn
+1
Level 58
Jul 14, 2022
Coal-fired power plants have cooling towers if they are not near a source of cooling water such as a large river or estuary. There is nothing about hyperboloid cooling towers that is particular to nuclear power stations. Do a google search for Drax power station, Eggborough power station or Ratcliffe-on-Soar, for example.
Sammy87
+3
Level 61
Apr 21, 2018
Hatemali sounds like you’re in the minority of people who couldn’t figure out that this was supposed to be a nuclear power plant
tshalla
+5
Level 75
Apr 21, 2018
Maybe if it was a picture of Homer at work?
Malbaby
+3
Level 71
Apr 22, 2018
How about a picture of a Uranium mine with a big sign saying URANIUM and a miner holding a lump of uranium with a big arrow pointing at it.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Jan 4, 2019
you could make that majority, because only 48% got it right.
blizzrd33
+3
Level 79
Aug 11, 2019
Those cooling towers looks exactly like the coal fired power plants in the Latrobe Valley near where I live in Australia. It is a bad pictorial clue because the cooling towers are not unique to nuclear plants. Go and look up pictures of the Yallourn coal powered plant I'm talking about if you don't believe me.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Mar 29, 2021
@Malbaby A miner holding a lump of uranium? That's wouldn't be very safe!
kiwiquizzer
+3
Level 68
Oct 7, 2021
Well, I was well and truly stumped. A nuclear plant never occurred to me from looking at that picture, none in New Zealand. We have a coal powered plant that looks like this though.
timshorts
+3
Level 55
Jul 14, 2022
Yep. I grew up able to see a nuclear power plant from the top of the garden and it didn't have one of those. Lots of coal fired equivalents in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, though, look like that.......
pitzikat
+2
Level 74
Mar 23, 2018
very fun quiz. thanks
APHill
+1
Level 75
Mar 23, 2018
The wrench one took me until the last seconds, and then I felt dumb that it took me so long.
Nachtschicht
+1
Level 58
Jul 14, 2022
Same here, I don't know about the USA, but where I live, using lead in water pipes was prohibited long ago.

But pipe fitters are still known as plumbers in english, I guess?

wkrpnyc
+1
Level 81
Jul 14, 2022
And the pipes are known as plumbing.
travelfan
+6
Level 67
Mar 23, 2018
The pool threw me for a bit, as H2O is a compound and neither hydrogen nor oxygen worked.... When I clued in I felt really stupid, lol. Great quiz idea!
david2013
+1
Level 84
Mar 23, 2018
Don't feel too bad. I did the same thing.
quizzicalguy
+1
Level 65
Apr 22, 2018
Did it as well...
TenThousand
+1
Level 76
Mar 23, 2018
Nice quiz!
Shiloh376
+2
Level 75
Mar 24, 2018
I'm liking these "by picture" quizzes! Great idea! Keep em coming.
Anzi
+2
Level 69
Apr 2, 2018
Was trying to think of an element connected with cooling towers and going through various pollutants. Any chance you can make the picture more specifically nuclear?
buddhabhoy1888
+1
Level 62
Apr 21, 2018
THAT was meant to be a nuclear power plant? How about a picture of a nuclear bomb instead?
wiifly
+1
Level 59
Mar 2, 2019
Well nuclear bomb would be Hydrogen since they are called Hydrogen Bombs, Nuclear plants use Uranium but that doesn't mean everything with Nuclear in it uses Uranium
Stursi
+1
Level 40
Apr 21, 2018
I knew over half of them, but I didn’t know what they are in English.
applescrumper
+1
Level 47
Apr 21, 2018
I thought for sure the "light bulb" answer had to be phosphorus. I kept trying different spellings of that, instead of trying to think of other potential answers. Oops.
bb11145
+2
Level 46
Apr 21, 2018
16/16 with 29 sec left; I get the symbolism but there is no lead in the 'lead' photo, while the PTFE joint tape spool shown represents fluorine
bb11145
+2
Level 46
Apr 21, 2018
Let's have a contest for which photo represents the most different elements. I vote for the saltshaker: sodium, chlorine; silicon, oxygen (silicon dioxide) in the glass which may also contain boron and calcium; iron, carbon, vanadium, molybdenum, chromium may all be in the stainless steel cap
danktacos
+1
Level 45
May 22, 2018
I agree. I might even put chlorine as another answer for salt, since it has the same amount of sodium and chlorine atoms in each compound.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Nov 15, 2019
Probably the grass.
RobNobody
+3
Level 76
Apr 21, 2018
For the last one I had to remind myself that Pentium isn't actually an element.
YamatoFans
+1
Level 69
Apr 21, 2018
I tried Pentium, too, even though it is a 486. Pentium, of course, was the trade name for what would have been the 586.
tmaster52
+1
Level 64
Apr 21, 2018
I feel like for the picture of table salt, both Sodium and Chlorine should be accepted, as it is NaCl (Sodium Chloride), with an equal molar ratio of 1:1.
mynameisxyz
+3
Level 39
Apr 22, 2018
I really typed Hydrogen and Oxygen in the swimming pool one.
Devvik2
+1
Level 70
Apr 22, 2018
I guessed sulfur for carbon!
wyocowgirl
+1
Level 78
Apr 23, 2018
Is it difficult for the British people to spell aluminum?
redsplat
+1
Level 74
Jul 17, 2019
I suspect not. Generally speaking, they usually spell it like the rest of the world outside the US: aluminium. (Except for US scientists, who tend to spell it aluminium also.)
blizzrd33
+2
Level 79
Aug 13, 2019
IUPAC adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990. The rest of the world are just waiting for the US (and Canada) to catch up.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 79
Mar 29, 2021
Most of the world spells it as aluminium.
g4ndalf
+1
Level 69
Jun 30, 2023
Is it difficult for US people to spell aluminium?
tuzdayschild
+2
Level 56
Apr 23, 2018
I could only think of copper pipes.
redsplat
+1
Level 74
Jul 17, 2019
Better for your health :)
AmyD85
+2
Level 71
Apr 23, 2018
Lead. *face palm*
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Nov 15, 2019
Colonel Mustard wants a word with you in the ballroom.
thirdarc
+1
Level 57
Apr 24, 2018
missed opportunity to use a more creative picture for silicon...
omnikin
+1
Level 59
Apr 25, 2018
You should put an image of Silicon Valley for the Silicon ;-)
g4ndalf
+1
Level 69
Jun 30, 2023
I don't know what silicon valley looks like lol
mikeyp
+2
Level 60
Apr 25, 2018
I kept putting in "Plutonium" for the banana picture but then I realized that only happens in Back to the Future 2.
MDW
+1
Level 47
Apr 25, 2018
That's really the best clue you could find for aluminium?

A grey globule?

kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Jul 14, 2022
You mean the tinfoil?
AbiA
+1
Level 83
Jul 14, 2022
What are the chances of us deciding at almost exactly the same time to reply to a comment from more than two years ago!
stylus
+1
Level 76
Jul 14, 2022
because it's been featured today, i'd say the chances are very high....
AbiA
+2
Level 83
Jul 14, 2022
I think they are potatoes wrapped in foil.
red79
+1
Level 28
Apr 28, 2018
Sodium and chlorine didn't work for me
jayhiatt
+1
Level 70
Oct 15, 2018
For the pipes, could copper also be accepted, as copper is probably a more common material for pipes now?
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Oct 15, 2018
I'm going to say no, primarily because Copper pipes are, well, Copper in colour. The pipes shown here are very different from copper piping. Sorry.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Jan 4, 2019
got all instantly without a second of thought, ok lead cost me half a second, was huh owyea... but the uranium one, looked at it for allmost a minute, thought it was about the clouds/smoke or something. Took me a long while to realize it is supposed to be a powerplant and the element itself isnt seen in the picture.
TheGreatArturo
+1
Level 76
Feb 12, 2024
That's a fascinating insight. Thank you for sharing it.
redsplat
+1
Level 74
Jul 17, 2019
Fun quiz! Would you be so kind to add the standard note that elements must correspond to the yellow box? I use a blue blocker and I didn't know it was there until I was halfway through and couldn't understand why my answers weren't working :P
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Jul 18, 2019
Added, thanks :)
Capistrano
+2
Level 80
Aug 12, 2019
Good quiz. You could add some other interesting ones: Krypton (planet), hydrogen (Hindenburg), nitrogen (Earth's atmosphere), oxygen (scuba tank), tin (can), silver, sulfur (geyser or hot spring), etc.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Oct 1, 2019
Missed lead, tungsten, and chromium.
Wiremu
+1
Level 56
Feb 22, 2020
Assuming that is a nuclear plant, because of Uranium, I think you should accept Zirconium. Correct me if I'm wrong
tillydog2015
+1
Level 28
Apr 3, 2020
Apperently, I made the same quiz but I didn't know so that is the only reason I got them all
TarhalanS
+1
Level 48
May 20, 2020
Could you accept natrium? After all, it's Na. I keep forgetting the English name...
emwcee
+1
Level 45
Sep 24, 2020
I guessed einsteinium for the last one, LOL.
JetPunker180
+1
Level 54
Apr 9, 2021
Who saw David star in temperature
fuanacdc
+1
Level 84
Jul 14, 2022
The swimming pool could also be Bromine
QuizApe
+1
Level 67
Jul 14, 2022
I thought that the picture of burning coal was lava.
stylus
+1
Level 76
Jul 14, 2022
not suggesting you remove it as the picture necessarily, but despite their reputation, bananas have much lower levels of potassium than most other fruit and veg. the urban myth that they're good potassium sources is the result of a pr campaign involving banana republics, the annexation of hawaii and the textbook industry. find out more from this excellent podcast episode
quizbasterd
+1
Level 66
Jul 14, 2022
...and periodic table symbols aren't accepted as answers because....?
elcampeador
+1
Level 78
Jul 15, 2022
Can you imagine the logistics nightmare that would create?
Hominka
+1
Level 80
Jul 16, 2022
Should have used a car battery for LEAD. Nobody uses lead pipes.
g4ndalf
+1
Level 69
Jun 30, 2023
I could swear that there is more hydrogen then chlorine in a swimming pool ... xD
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