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Element Etymologies: Places
Name the countries, cities, and other regions with elements of the Periodic Table named after them.
From Wikipedia's "List of chemical elements named after places"
Astronomical objects (such as the sun, moon, planets, and dwarf planets) have been excluded.
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Last updated: December 6, 2023
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| First submitted | December 13, 2019 |
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MrToad
+3
Level 65
Sep 15, 2021
Arguably, one building complex - the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - has two elements named after it.
MrToad
+1
Level 65
Sep 15, 2021
Also interesting to discover that Samarium isn't in fact named after the region in the West Bank, but after a person!
CambodianQuizzer
+1
Level 63
Sep 15, 2021
In which the person was probably named after the city.
mbgillespi
+7
Level 72
Sep 15, 2021
Scandium?
DeeB
+2
Level 58
Sep 15, 2021
Strontian is most definitely not a city. The word 'city' has a specific meaning in the UK, and only places that are officially designated as cities are called cities. Strontian is a tiny village, population 400. It is entirely misleading to call it a "Scottish City".
plelliott
+2
Level 61
Sep 15, 2021
Livermore, California
Abby
+2
Level 48
Nov 28, 2023
I think berkelium could be better clued as a university in the US, even though it is also the name of the city, the element was named that because it was discovered in UC Berkeley
itsthebarg
+1
Level 65
Dec 6, 2023
This is a good point. It's been fixed.
MDW
+1
Level 48
Dec 5, 2023
Ruthenia isn't a country, if it ever was.
Arp2600
+1
Level 86
Dec 5, 2023
It would be good to put Russia in parentheses as for the other elements based on a latin name.
itsthebarg
+1
Level 65
Dec 6, 2023
This was an oversight and it has been fixed.
Fianchetto
+3
Level 73
Dec 5, 2023
I remembered ytterby from the interesting fact.
Arp2600
+1
Level 86
Dec 5, 2023
I erased my former comment, since the quiz has been upgraded. This version is nice, but maybe you should stick to allowing the name of the element, not the place (or maybe ask both? That would almost double the number of questions but I would like it).
itsthebarg
+1
Level 65
Dec 6, 2023
I thought about that, but I think it wouldn't add much. I don't think there's a meaningful difference between knowing that there's an element named after France and knowing that there's an element named Francium. Sure, there are a few cases where this isn't necessarily the case (looking at you, Hafnium) but I stand by my decision.
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