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Name a Valid Element

Can you name one valid element that falls into each of these categories?
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: August 22, 2019
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First submittedAugust 21, 2019
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Category
Elements
Has a four letter name
Neon | Iron | Gold | Lead | Zinc
Found in the first row of the Periodic Table
Hydrogen | Helium
Begins with F
Fluorine | Francium | Fermium | Flerovium
A noble gas
Helium | Neon | Argon | Krypton | Xenon | Radon
Is magnetic
Iron | Cobalt | Nickel
Is named after a town in Sweden
Yttrium | Terbium | Holmium | Erbium | Ytterbium
Is yellow
Sulfur | Chlorine | Gold
Liquid at room temperature
Bromine | Mercury
Named for a current planet
Uranium | Neptunium
Named after a U.S. State
Californium | Tennessine
Component of table salt
Sodium | Chlorine
Component of glucose
Hydrogen | Carbon | Oxygen
Abbreviation shares no letters with the name of the element
Sodium | Potassium | Silver | + 5 others
One of the four most recent elements to be added
Nihonium | Moscovium | Tennessine | Oganesson
Has an atomic number between 20 and 25
Calcium | Scandium | Titanium | Vanadium |
Chromium | Manganese
Named after a woman
Curium | Meitnerium
Its abbreviation is a single vowel
Oxygen | Yttrium | Iodine | Uranium
Named after another element
Radon | Molybdenum | Platinum | Protactinium
ausforming
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Level 48
Aug 21, 2019
There is another element, that are named after another:

Proactinium

WolfCam
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Level 66
Aug 21, 2019
Added!
joeythelemur
+2
Level 84
Aug 21, 2019
Proactinium doesn't seem to work??
sumguy
+19
Level 84
Aug 21, 2019
You have to spell it correctly.
hybrid
+4
Level 76
Sep 7, 2019
It's "protactinium".
cpgatbyu
+17
Level 85
Aug 21, 2019
Tungsten has no letter in common with its abbreviation W.
WolfCam
+7
Level 66
Aug 21, 2019
Sorry, I made an error with the type-in. It is now awaiting re approval
db27
+4
Level 89
Aug 21, 2019
Also lead doesn't seem to work
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Aug 22, 2019
Lead works.
Sifhraven
+5
Level 67
Aug 29, 2019
Lead works, pb doesnt, which is what i first tried.
skyraider112
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Level 51
Sep 7, 2019
Technically it does though. Tungsten is also called Wolfram
WolfCam
+30
Level 66
Sep 7, 2019
As much as I’m a fan of things that are very close to my name, we are only using the official names
BenSP
+21
Level 79
Aug 21, 2019
Should Mercury be allowed for planet question?
sumguy
+9
Level 84
Aug 21, 2019
It wasn't actually named after the planet like Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium were, but it does share a name with a current planet.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Aug 22, 2019
Just looked it up. The element was named for the god.
buck1017
+32
Level 77
Oct 6, 2020
but so were the planets...so thus by the transitive property...... :-)
wiifly
+4
Level 59
May 29, 2022
That’s one cause two effects, not the transitive property.
Nicco55
+3
Level 69
Aug 21, 2019
Isn't neodymium also magnetic? Mercury doesn't share any letter with Hg either
WolfCam
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Level 66
Aug 21, 2019
Neodymium Magnets are actually made of an alloy of Neodymium, Iron, and Boron. But I added Mercury
almanildo
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Level 67
Oct 17, 2019
But I'm pretty sure Gadolinium is magnetic
wiifly
+2
Level 59
May 29, 2022
Gadolinium is the most paramagnetic element, but it is only ferromagnetic below room temperature.
dwo
+5
Level 93
Aug 21, 2019
Named after another element = Platinum (“little silver”)
WolfCam
+8
Level 66
Aug 21, 2019
Added. Also I discovered Molybdenum is named after lead
Sifhraven
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Level 67
Aug 29, 2019
I cant see how they got molybdenjm out of lead haha. How about quicksilver=mercury?

I that was the only one i could think of when ytterbium and erbium etc didnt work.

richiesyxx
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Level 72
May 29, 2022
It’s named from ‘molybdos’ which is the Greek for lead. Mainly because it’s ores were confused with the ores for lead.
mf3
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Level 87
Aug 21, 2019
While you're at it, ruthenium (Ru, element 44) is also magnetic:

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-scientists-magnetic-element.html

simsi
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Level 27
Jul 3, 2022
Wouldn't ruthenium be ferromagnetic only in a specific shape e.g being in a realy thin layer of a certian crystalstructure?

I'm no chemist, just read the wikipedia aritcle and the citation to this claim.

Since the element in its "normal" state is paramagentic

roleybob
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Level 75
Aug 22, 2019
I like these 'name a valid...' quizzes a lot
tom88
+5
Level 72
Aug 22, 2019
only one I missed was the town in Sweden. Didn't know any of those were towns at all.
plattitude
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Level 92
Aug 23, 2019
Well, 4 of the 5 are named after the same town of Ytterby.
kaislash
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Level 54
Mar 11, 2022
yttrium ytterbium erbium terbium

chemists really liked this town huh

RobNobody
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Level 76
May 29, 2022
It's because the mine in Ytterby lead to the discovery of a surprising number of elements. The discovery of yttrium, ytterbium, erbium, terbium, scandium, holmium, thulium, and gadolinium can all be traced back to samples from there.
kaderschaufel
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Level 71
Sep 2, 2019
Holmium is named after Stockholm.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 55
Mar 21, 2024
by someone who didn't know how to spell Stockholm?
joez
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Level 72
Aug 22, 2019
Quicksilver (Mercury) is named for another element. Its Greek name hydrargyrum means "liquid silver".
catie09
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Level 82
Aug 22, 2019
"is a single letter and a vowel" Better: "its abbreviation is a single vowel." (I read that as single letter PLUS a vowel.)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 22, 2019
My mistake. Your suggestion has been implemented.
Zooty
+6
Level 71
Aug 22, 2019
Isn't gold yellow?
Quizzer6794
+5
Level 65
Aug 22, 2019
Gold is gold
WolfCam
+8
Level 66
Aug 22, 2019
That's true, but I think it's close enough to count
eibi
+2
Level 80
Aug 26, 2019
Looks kind of similar to my quiz: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/136077/name-a-valid-chemical-element
RobD
+4
Level 81
Aug 29, 2019
Niobium for element named after a woman?
eibi
+1
Level 80
Aug 30, 2019
Also Vanadium...
kaderschaufel
+6
Level 71
Sep 2, 2019
Being a bit nit-picky, but it's not called abbreviation, it's called symbol (Fe is the symbol for iron).
bebn123
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Level 59
Sep 7, 2019
I find it odd how Mercury doesn't work for the planet question. Sure, Mercury might've been named after the god, but the planets (including Uranus and Neptune) were also named after gods, were they not? It just seems counter-intuitive.
RobNobody
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2019
Nah, it doesn't work like that. It's like if you and your cousin were both named after the same one of your mutual grandparents. It wouldn't then be accurate to say that you were named after your cousin.
MiracleMax
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Level 75
Sep 7, 2019
Can someone explain to me how those elements are named for other elements? I get platinum, somehow derived from silver, but the others baffle me.
RobNobody
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2019
Radon: Short for "radium emanation." It was discovered as a radioactive gas given off when radium decays.

Molybdenum: Means "lead-like," from the Greek molybdos, meaning "lead," because it's very similar to a common type of lead ore.

Platinum: From the Spanish platina, meaning "little silver," because it was first discovered (by Europeans, anyway) in a silver mine.

Protactinium: Originally called "protoactinium," meaning "before actinium," because it was discovered as the stage of uranium-235 decay right before actinium (uranium-235 decays into thorium-231, which decays into protactinium-231, which decays into actinium-227.)

vermiciousknid
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Level 88
Sep 7, 2019
Fascinating, I had been wondering about some of those too. Thank you!
diguedondon
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Level 67
Oct 24, 2019
Isn't Neopraseodymium named after Praseodymium ?
ecalot
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Level 66
Feb 24, 2020
And about the symbols, I have to mention that Mercury (Hg from greek Hydrargyrum) comes from Silver (Ag from latin Argentum thus sharin roots with greek Argyrum), in fact the g there has the same root.
RobNobody
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Level 76
Jan 28, 2022
@diguedondon - Do you mean neodymium? Both it and praseodymium were named after the ore they were simultaneously extracted from, didymium.
Pollance
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Level 44
Sep 7, 2019
Add Plutonium under the planet answer. Technically, it was classified as a planet when it was being named.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Sep 7, 2019
The clue clearly says current planet, which I think is a giveaway that they are not including Plutonium.
Bonzo65
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Level 70
Sep 7, 2019
You should perhaps specify 'ferro-magnetic' as most elements are magnetic to some extent, depending on their state. You should add Gadolinium to the three other ferro-magnetic elements as it is FM at room temperature.
vermiciousknid
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Level 88
Sep 7, 2019
Loved this quiz! Got 100% but managed to learn a bunch of new facts about the featured elements, too.
GoatUnicorn
+1
Level 59
Sep 7, 2019
Quicksilver for mercury?
skyraider112
+1
Level 51
Sep 7, 2019
Isn't Mercury named after the planet Mercury...
Jacktheguy
+3
Level 89
Sep 7, 2019
They're both named after the Roman god.
RedLightning
+1
Level 47
Sep 7, 2019
I was going to suggest adding copernicium for an element named after a women then I found out it's named after a guy xD
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Oct 1, 2019
100% LET'S GO
FatSpartanJediLlama
+3
Level 67
Oct 1, 2019
I swear I was just guessing yttrium randomly for Swedish town. Radon made sense cuz it sounds like radium.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Oct 1, 2019
But wouldn't mercury count as a current planet?
RobNobody
+2
Level 76
May 29, 2022
Yes, but the element was named after the god, not the planet.
GryphonDark
+1
Level 19
Dec 19, 2019
mercury isnt a planet apparently
RobNobody
+3
Level 76
May 29, 2022
It is, but the element wasn't named after the planet.
richiesyxx
+1
Level 72
May 29, 2022
Some would argue that Mercury isn’t a god either…
ecalot
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Level 66
Feb 24, 2020
Tellurium was named after planet Earth. Dwarf planets are planets too, so Cerium was named after dwarf planet Ceres and Plutonium after Pluto.

Also nickel is a short of Kupfernickel, named after copper (literally, demon of copper).

Devvik2
+1
Level 70
Mar 13, 2020
Is Mercury the element named after mercury the planet?
RobNobody
+2
Level 76
May 29, 2022
Nope, it's named after the god.
Damangio
+2
Level 64
Jun 22, 2020
Cesium/caesium is also yellow.
KingEureka
+1
Level 62
Jul 26, 2020
Many more Yellow elements that the ones stated above.
prdoz
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Level 73
Oct 2, 2020
Great quiz!

I agree with @ecalot that nickel is named after copper. Also zirconium is named after gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconium.

At a stretch you could argue that copernicium is also named after two elements since Nicolaus Copernicus' surname means copper+nickel

One to add for an element named after a woman - palladium was named after Pallas Athena the Greek goddess and can also translate to "little maiden"

FolgoreCZ
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Level 60
Nov 25, 2020
I wanted to say Palladium too, but I looked it up and apparently, it was named after some asteroid, not the goddes. The asteroid of course was named after the goddes, but the author doesn't count those. For the same reason, he doesn't count Mercury, because it wasn't named after the planet.
XYU
+1
Level 62
May 29, 2021
Good info, nice one - I tried copernicium as well. However, it was named after a person, not directly after a substance, so I agree that copernicium shouldn't count.
zack22
+1
Level 67
Feb 26, 2021
Just for kicks, potentially add Iodine to the table salt ingredients considering most table salts are iodized nowadays?
Jaxboy
+1
Level 18
Mar 27, 2024
no
Creo
+3
Level 37
Feb 27, 2021
Y isn't a vowel
tetraaa
+1
Level 33
May 31, 2022
it can be a vowel or a consonant.
BorrisDenTredje
+1
Level 66
Apr 6, 2022
If we count latin then mercury is named ''water silver'' but I understand if you don't
DrWhoFanJ
+2
Level 62
May 29, 2022
Surely all elements other than copper (the earliest-named element) should be valid for “named after another element”‽ Only one thing can be first, after all! /s
rich75
+2
Level 53
May 29, 2022
Very disappointed to learn that Beryllium is not named after Beryl Reid.
Scaro88
+2
Level 78
May 29, 2022
Selenium is named after Selene, the goddess of the moon right? So could that be excepted for the woman thing. I guess woman implies it's human actually
VeryCoolPerson
+1
Level 48
May 29, 2022
Mercury is a planet
richiesyxx
+1
Level 72
May 29, 2022
Pretty sure they’ve dealt with this already
YPOC
+1
Level 32
May 30, 2022
Technically Ytterbium, Yttrium, Terbium and Erbium were named after the quarry Ytterby, not the village itself.

Also you could argue Tellurium is named after the planet Earth.

RMPi314
+1
Level 60
Jun 10, 2022
Why is yttrium a element, which abbreviation is a single vowel?

Yttrium is Y, which is not a vowel, only a,e,i,o and u are. I dont think it should be included there.

Can anyone comment on why some native english speakers sometimes and it to the vowels?

RobNobody
+1
Level 76
Apr 14, 2024
Because in many words it is used as an independent letter to make a vowel sound (as opposed to letters like h or w which only make a vowel sound when combined with a vowel, as in "oh" or "aw.") For instance, in the word "fly" it makes the "eye" sound of a long i, and i is definitely a vowel. In a word like "really," it makes the "ee" sound of a long e. And in "Yttrium" it makes the "ih" sound of a short i, so it's being used as a vowel there as well.

Of course, it doesn't always do this. The word "yellow," for instance, has it make a consonantal "yuh" sound. But if it can, on its own, make a vowel sound in certain words, should it not be considered a vowel in those words?

simsi
+1
Level 27
Jul 3, 2022
Since when is Y a vowel?
Dimby
+6
Level 77
Jan 9, 2023
Hi! I'm a self-appointed "Y is sometimes a vowel" expert. In English, a letter is considered a vowel when it is part of the pronunciation of a vowel SOUND. In English, a vowel sound can be thought of as a sound that can be held for an indefinite amount of time with an open mouth, no build-up of pressure anywhere, and the tip of the tongue not touching anything. When you say "hug", you can draw out the "u" sound to be longer... "huuuuuuuuug" can be pronounced. You can draw out consonants like "n", but there the tongue touches the roof of the mouth. For "s", there is a build up of pressure. As for the "Y" in Yttrium being a vowel, it's pronounced like "it - reum". You can hold out the Y's sound indefinitely: "iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit - reum". Y is actually a vowel more often than not. It is a vowel in "actually", for instance. It's only NOT a vowel in words like "you", "yolk", and "lightyear".
skyraider112
+1
Level 51
Jul 27, 2022
"Abbreviation shares no letters with the name of the element"

Specify that we are talking about their English names, because many of the abbreviations come from their element's names in a language like latin

GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 67
Feb 18, 2024
I missed the Swedish towns question, I thought they were cities.
Jaxboy
+1
Level 18
Mar 27, 2024
mercury a planet g
RobNobody
+1
Level 76
Apr 14, 2024
This has been addressed in the comments many, many times already. The element was named after the god, not the planet.
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