Statistics for Chemistry A-Z

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
N: Makes up 78% of air	Nitrogen	96%
O: Makes up 21% of air	Oxygen	96%
H: Lightest element on the Periodic Table	Hydrogen	95%
S: Yellow non-metal that combines with gas to create its distinctive smell	Sulphur	86%
I: Metal heavily used in civilization	Iron	83%
U: Radioactive element sometimes depicted as glowing green, but is really a dull metal	Uranium	82%
C: Discovered 2 elements, died of radiation	Curie	80%
X: Heavy inert gas	Xenon	80%
G: Yellow, well-known metal	Gold	75%
F: Most reactive element on the Periodic Table	Fluorine	74%
R: Radioactive inert gas	Radon	74%
B: Created the current atomic model	Bohr	71%
E: Named after famed phycist	Einsteinium	70%
P: Radioactive actinide - sometimes regarded as the most dangerous chemical on earth	Plutonium	59%
V: Transition metal with rainbow-coloured oxide film	Vanadium	58%
Y: Rare-earth metal named after a town in Sweden (The light one)	Yttrium	54%
M: Creator of the original Periodic Table	Mendeleev	52%
Z: Transition metal occurring in 30 mineral species (The heavy one)	Zirconium	42%
A: Radioactive element found in smoke detectors	Americium	24%
T: Element that will make you smell like rotten eggs	Tellurium	16%
W: German word for "Tungsten"	Wolfram	16%
L: Formerly most expensive of the lanthanides	Lutetium	10%
Q: Until 2012, Flerovium was known as "Unun____ium"	Quad	8%
D: Creator of superheavy elements	Dubna	2%
J: Proposed name for Element 105	Joliotium	1%
K: Historical name for Element 104	Kurchatovium	1%