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Ytterbium, yttrium, erbium and terbium are named for Ytterby in what
country?
Sweden
Your dentist would know this. By definition, an amalgam is an alloy that
includes which other element?
Mercury
You used litmus paper in chemistry class, but where does litmus itself
come from?
Lichens
You may see C 12 H 22 O 11 every day. What is it? Table sugar
You can be adamant that the name for what gem comes from the Greek
word for invincible?
Diamond
With a half-life of 5,730 years, what carbon isotope is used to date
fossils?
Carbon-14
Whose 1798 work Elements of Chemistry was the first scientific list of
elements?
Antoine Lavoisier
Which was used as a local anesthetic and an early ingredient in Coca-
Cola?
Cocaine
Which was the first synthetic plastic in the world? Bakelite
Which was the first element recognized and experimented to have radio
active properties?
Polonium
Which uranium isotopes are formed and is used as a fuel in nuclear
reactions to produce electrical energy?
U235
Which substance can easily change from solid or liquid state to vapour is
known as?
Volatile
Which state of matter has a definite shape because their molecules are
tightly packed?
Solid
Which radio active element is the major source of nuclear energy? Uranium
Which of these would best describe turbid water? Muddy
Which of these suffixes would indicate a compound with the fewest
oxygen atoms?
Ite
Which of these substances requires the least energy to increase its
temperature by 1C?
Gold
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Which of these subatomic particles is the heaviest? Neutron
Which of these is not an element? Water
Which of these is an organic compound instead of an element? Alcohol
Which of these is an example of a form of cohesion called surface
tension?
A soap bubble
Which of these is a synonym for grain alcohol? Ethanol
Which of these is a soft silvery metallic alkali metal that is so reactive
that it is often kept in kerosene?
Potassium
Which of these is a slow reaction that takes some days? Corrosive reaction
Which of these is a natural polymer? Cellulose
Which of these has the lowest pH number, at 3? Lemon juice
Which of these has the highest rate of fuel values? Hydrogen
Which of these fuel is heaver and oiler? Diesel
Which of these fruits does NOT contain citrus acid? Mango
Which of these fictional heavy metal bands is actually named for a heavy
metal?
Mercury Rising
Which of these fibres is least prone to fire? Cotton
Which of these elements is obtained from sea weeds? Vanadium
Which of these distinctive smells actually comes from hydrogen sulfide
(H 2 S)?
Rotting eggs
Which of these colors is considered achromatic? Gray
Which of these chemicals removes odors from refrigerators? Sodium bicarbonate
Which of these alloys is used for making magnets? Alnico
Which of the following contains between 10% and 15%
tetrahydrocannibol?
Hashish
Which of the following chemical elements has the highest melting point? Carbon
Which natural element has the high melting point of 3,400C? Tungsten
Which metal is not paired with the color it produces in a flame test? Barium black
Which metal is a liquid at room temperature, used in thermometers? Mercury
Which metal has the major composition of 88% gunmetal, a type of Copper
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bronze?
Which is used as local anesthetic, makes a specific part of the body
numb?
Lignocaine
Which is used as an anti-freezable in automobile engines? Ethanol
Which is the toxic substance in a leaded petrol, which can cause brain
damage specially in children?
Tetraethyl lead
Which is the synthetic radioactive metallic element that provides powers
to the orbiting satellite?
Curium
Which is the substitute for costly radium, a radioactive isotope used in
cancer therapy?
Cobalt 60
Which is the raw material to produce safety matches? Red Phosphorous
Which is the rarely available element on the earths surface? Astatine
Which is the parent material of stainless steel? Iron
Which is the only substance to exist naturally on the earth in all three
states gas, liquid & solid?
Water
Which is the most commonly used bleaching agent? Chlorine
Which is the most common gas in the atmosphere? Nitrogen
Which is the most common element other than water (H & O) and
common salt (NaCl) in Sea water?
Magnesium
Which is the lightest metal of all? Lithium(Li)
Which is the lightest element, with an atomic weight of 1.008? Hydrogen
Which is the highest poisonous extract of opium? Thebaine
Which is the heaviest element of all at 22.59g/cm at 20C? Osmium
Which is the hardest among all other substances on the earth with a
Mohs scale of 10?
Diamond
Which is the costliest metal among these? Iridium
Which is the common element present in all acids? Hydrogen
Which is the common element found in charcoal, coal, granite and
diamond?
Carbon
Which is the cheapest commercial acid among these? Hydrochloric Acid
Which is the basic unit of all states of matter? Atom
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Which is an insulator, but a good conductor of heat used in electric iron
box?
Mica
Which is an extremely strong, flexible, fire-resistant polymer with low
density, used to make bullet proof vests?
Kevlar
Which is an aluminium alloy that consists of copper, manganese and
magnesium usually used in the construction of air crafts?
Duralumin
Which is also known as MILK OF MAGNESIA used as an antacid to
neutralize the stomach acids?
Magnesium
Hydroxide
Which is a narcotic drug obtained from opium, used in cough mixture? Codeine
Which is a lighter non-flammable gas used in Balloons and airships? Helium
Which halide is a non-metallic element occur in liquid form? Bromine
Which group of a periodic table has the most number of elements? Transition metals
Which glass is used to make oven, Ware and Laboratory glass ware? Borosilicate glass
Which element is an important constituent of bones and teeth? Calcium
Which element has the largest number of isotope- 27 and 5000 of
radioactive as radium?
Polonium
Which element gets its chemical symbol for natrium, its Latin name? Sodium
Which element forms more compounds than all the other elements
combined?
Carbon
Which color flame burns hottest? Blue
Which chemical is used to preserve food grains? Sodium Benzoate
Which among these is highly flammable and has to be stored under
water or otherwise it catches fire?
White phosphorous
Which among these is also known as dry ice, or cardice? Solid carbon dioxide
(CO 2 )
Which among these is a rich source for Vitamin A? All of these
Which among these is a common salt we use? Sodium Chloride
Where are you most likely to see something with the chemical formula
Fe 2 O 3 ?
On your cars body
Where are you most likely to find an alkaloid called capsaicin? In spices
Where are you most likely to encounter monosodium glutamate? In a Chinese
restaurant
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When Scottish chemist Joseph Black decomposed chalk and limestone,
he got fixed air. What do we call it?
Carbon dioxide
When said aloud, it sounds like something youd say to call somebody
over. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Au
When heated, baking soda releases carbon dioxide, which leavens baked
goods. But what is the chemical formula of baking soda?
NaHCO3
When a base neutralizes an acid, what is left over? Salt and water
Whats the first element on the periodic table? Hydrogen
What would you need to move a cubic foot block of gold? A truck: its half a
ton
What would you most likely use CH 3 COCH 3 for? Removing fingernail
polish
What would you most likely do with C 8 H 18 ? Gas up your car with
it
What would somebody most likely use C 3 N 3 H 5 0 9 for? To blow stuff up
What wonderful smell is actually off-gassing of volatile organic
compounds from vinyl and plastic?
New cars
What were the elements cerium and palladium named for? Asteroids
What was hydrochloric acid (HCl) formerly known as? Spirits of salts
What volume of an atom is occupied by the nucleus? One quadrillionth
What university has two elements named for it? Berkeley

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What type of cells are lighter in weight, used in mobile phones and
notebook computers?
Lithium cells
What three letters are found at the end of names of all five halogen
elements?
INE
What substance is added in small quantities to the water supplies, to
prevent tooth decay?
Fluoride
What subatomic particle gets its name from the Greek for first? Proton
What radioactive element was named for a planet discovered eight years
before the element was?
Uranium
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What pseudoplastic condiment exhibits shear thinning, in which viscosity
decreases with increasing rate of shear stress?
Ketchup
What potassium compound, originally called potassium carbonate, did we
originally get by leaching wood ashes?
Potash
What poison is used to de-green impure glass, to harden lead and (until
penicillin came along) to treat syphilis?
Arsenic
What non-malleable iron was made in the 17 th century by pouring molten
metal into molds?
Cast iron
What name is often used for the d-block elements on the periodic table,
which includes iron, cobalt, nickel and copper?
Transition metals
What metal would you find you most likely extract from pitchblende? Uranium
What metal element is the only liquid you can handle without getting wet
(not that you would want to be touching it)?
Mercury
What metal can you make softer by increasing the amount of copper and
decreasing the amount of Zinc?
Brass
What light, silvery element was first used in foil wrap in the 1940s, and in
the 1960s started to become popular in cans?
Aluminum
What letter is the SI symbol for electric charge? Q
What lab assistant was working with Robert Koch in 1877 when he found a
new way to grow bacteria in gelatin?
Julius Petri
What kind of colloid is smoke? Aerosol
What is the term of water vapour present in the atmospheric air known as? Humidity
What is the term for oil, straight from an oil well called? Crude oil
What is the study of carbon compounds known as? Organic
Chemistry
What is the simplest phenol known as phenol derived from benzene
commonly known as?
Carbolic acid
What is the scientific name for laughing gas? Nitrous oxide
What is the ratio of composition of gun powder a mixture of potassium
nitrate, charcoal and sulphur?
3.13553240741
What is the rarest gas? Xenon
What is the process of heating up liquid into gas called as? Evaporation
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What is the PH value of acidic solution at 25C? Less than 7.0
What is the oxidation of metals burning in air called as? Calcination
What is the only radioactive noble gas, one that actually is responsible for
most of your exposure to radiation?
Radon
What is the only element with no neutrons in the nucleus? Hydrogen
What is the only country with two elements on the periodic table named for
it?
France
What is the only continent with a chemical element named for it? Europe
What is the only chemical element named for an Italian? Fermium
What is the only chemical element named for a New Zealander? Rutherfordium
What is the only chemical element named for a married couple? Curium
What is the only chemical element named for a Dane? Bohrium
What is the naturally occurring mineral known as? Ore
What is the name of the plastic explosive the Czech Republic made to be
safe to handle, smell less and difficult to trace?
Semtex
What is the name of the alloy with mercury with other metals? Amalgam
What is the name of an enzyme that breaks down the proteins during
digestion?
Pepsin
What is the name for hydride of nitrogen (NH 3 )? Ammonia
What is the melting point or freezing point of water? 0C
What is the main compound of a glass? Sand(Silica)
What is the lightest gas? Hydrogen
What is the heaviest inert gas? Radon
What is the first letter of the alphabet not used as a chemical symbol for
one of the elements?
D
What is the compound of an acid and base called? Salt
What is the common name of mineral with mercury sulfide? Cinnabar
What is the common name for trichloromethane a substance used as an
anaestethic and solvent?
Chloroform
What is the common name for sodium chloride? Salt
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What is the common name for acetaldehyde (CH3,CHO)? Ethanal
What is the combination of two or more metals known as? Alloy
What is the chemical symbol of the element with the shortest English
name?
Sn
What is the chemical symbol for Tin? Sn
What is the chemical symbol for Sodium? Na
What is the chemical symbol for Potassium? K
What is the chemical symbol for iron? Fe
What is the chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table? Au
What is the chemical symbol for Chromium? Cr
What is the chemical symbol for Antimony? Sb
What is the chemical formula for common table salt? NaCl
What is the chemical formula for benzene? C 6 H 6
What is the barnyard name for crude iron that comes straight out of the
blast furnace?
Pig iron
What is the alternative name for rare earth elements? Lanthanides
What is the acid chemical constituent of the analgesic drug Aspirin? Salicylic acid
What is NOT a particle that makes up an atom? Astron
What is NOT a halogen an extreme form of the non-metals among these? Sulfur
What is magnesium silicate usually called? Asbestos
What is deuterium oxide? Heavy water
What is an oxide of hydrogen, also called as? Water
What is an endothermic reaction in which the energy is taken from their
surroundings?
Evaporation
What is a product formulated to protect decorate surfaces which has three
ingredients pigments, polymers and a solvent?
Paint
What is a process of obtaining pure water from sea water or other sources
of water called?
Desalination
What is a chemical which fixes a dye to the fibres of a textile called? Mordant
What highly toxic element (#4 on the periodic table) was once called Beryllium
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glucinium, because its soluble components taste like sugar?
What harmful waste product is produced when protein is broken down to
provide energy?
Ammonia
What group of chemicals can you remember with the mnemonic Heaven
never asked Kriegspiels extra rent?
Rare gases
What gets formed by the mixture of soap with the calcium and magnesium
ions found in hard water?
Bathtub rings
What gaseous element, found in ammonia, if fixed to other elements to
form organic compounds?
Nitrogen
What gas was leaked from union carbides factory in Bhopal Gas therapy? Methylisocyanate
What gas is used in carbonated drinks such as soft drinks, sodas, and
lemonades?
Carbon dioxide
What essential chemical element does salt contain? Sodium
What elements symbol is Fe, from the Latin word ferrum? Iron
What element, whose name comes from the Greek for stone, is used to
make cell phone and camera batteries?
Lithium
What element, the second least reactive of the halogens, is also the heaviest
chemical element commonly used by living organisms?
Iodine
What element, the first one found through spectrum analysis, was named
for its sky blue spectrum lines?
Cesium
What element, mined in Germany, is named for a kind of goblin that was
blamed for the substances impurities?
Cobalt
What element, at atomic number 1, is therefore the top of the charts,
where the periodic table is concerned?
Hydrogen
What element was named for the Sun, although on Earth it occurs mostly
due to underground radioactive decay?
Helium
What element not only strengthens glass, but kills cockroaches and makes
clothes cleaner?
Chlorine
What element not only protects metal from rust, but protects you from
dandruff and is the active ingredient in calamine?
Zinc
What element means green blood for sea squirts and sea cucumbers, since
they use it instead of iron in their blood cells?
Vanadium
What element makes up most of the weight of water and about half the
weight of most rocks?
Oxygen
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What element is the only one known that occurs, not on Earth, but in outer
space, especially in the spectra of supernovae
Californium
What element is symbolized by a K, because it was named for kalium,
the Arabic word for alkali?
Potassium
What element is named for a US state or, more precisely, for a university in
that state?
Californium
What element has the lowest melting point of any element? Helium
What element gets its name from the Latin word for lime, and indeed,
does appear in limestone?
Calcium
What element gets its name from the Arabic for gold like although gold
is much harder to find?
Zirconium
What element (#46 on the periodic table) shares its name with a London
theater?
Palladium
What egg-thickened dairy dessert is also a non-Newtonian diluted fluid that
becomes harder as you put more pressure on it?
Custard

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What does PH an acidity measuring scale refers to? Power of hydrogen
What does N stand for in DNAs and RNAs? Nucleic
What does the acronym CFC refer to? Chlorofluorocarbon
What does specific gravity measure? Density
What do we call sold material that can flow and change shape over a
long period?
Plastic
What do most elements discovered since 1940 have in common? Decay quickly
What do all alkenes contain? Carbon
What did the Romans call gold? Aurum
What color is chlorine gas? Greenish yellow
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What chemical will burn violently when mixed with water, but not at all
in kerosene?
Sodium
What chemical was discovered accidentally by James Schlatter in 1965,
when he was testing an anti-ulcer drug?
Aspartame
What chemical element was named for the inventor of the cyclotron? Lawrencium
What chemical element on the periodic table was named for the guy
who created the periodic table?
Mendelevium
What chemical element is found in every acid? Hydrogen
What California city gave its name to an artificially created radioactive
metallic element, #97 on the periodic table?
Berkeley
What attributes to repetition of short circuit if an electric fire is doused
with?
Water
What are you most likely to do with C 12 H 22 O 11 ? Add it to your coffee
What are the three major nutrients need for plants, supplied through
fertilizers?
N-P-K
What are the organic compounds formed by the reaction between an
alcohol and an acid called?
Ester
What are the open chain organic compounds called as? Aliphatic
What are the dispersion of a solid or liquid in a glass like smoke and
fog?
Aerosols
What are the different forms of the same elements, however in the same
physical state known as?
Allotropic form
What are the compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen called? Carbohydrates
What are the chemical messengers carried round the body in the blood
stream called?
Hormones
What are normally the sweet smelling compounds found in perfumes
and fruit flavours?
Esters
What are cocaine, morphine, caffeine strychnine, the types of ? Alkaloid
What are biological compounds which are soluble in organic solvents
but insoluble in water?
Lipids
What are aerosols mostly made up of? CFCs
What acid is present in Vitamin C? Ascorbic acid
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We usually mix metals to create alloys. Which alloy is 70% copper and
30% tin?
Bronze
We discovered radium and polonium. What element is named for us? Curium
Vermillion, a reddish orange pigment, once came from what mercury
ore, found near volcanoes and hot springs?
Cinnabar
Usually produced through the Hock process, what colorless, flammable
liquid is known chemically as CH 3 COCH 3 ?
Acetone
Used to make matches, what was the first element to be chemically
discovered, back in 1669 by Hennig Brand?
Phosphorus
Used mainly to make fertilizer, what extremely corrosive material is
known scientifically as H 2 SO 4 ?
Sulfuric acid
Used in matches, explosives and fireworks by what name is potassium
nitrate (KNO 3 ) better known?
Saltpeter
Used in catalytic converters to reduce automobile emissions, what
element is also added to gold to make it white gold?
Platinum
Urine is fluorescent, meaning that it glows in the dark under what kind
of black light?
Ultraviolet light
Until World War I, where did we get most of our potassium? From wood ash
U 3 O 8 is a solid form of uranium oxide. By what name is the chemical
more commonly called?
Yellowcake
Typically, at room temperature, only two elements are liquid. One is
mercury. What is the other?
Bromine
Two elements on the periodic table have names that end in -ium, but
that arent metals. One is helium. What is the other?
Selenium
To make a tincture of something, what will that something have to be
dissolved into?
Alcohol
To make a classroom volcano, add some vinegar to what kitchen staple? Baking soda
Tin cans are typically made with what soft metal, which is shored up
with some manganese?
Aluminum
Ti is the chemical symbol for which element? Titanium
Thulium was named Thule, the Roman name for what spot, where Per
Teodor Cleve found it in 1879?
Scandinavia
Three elements are highly magnetic. Which of these is not one of them? Aluminum
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They say no two snowflakes are alike, but all snowflakes are alike
chemically. What is the chemical formula for a pure snowflake?
H 2 O
There are two types of hadrons. You got your baryons, and you got your
mesons. Which of these is a meson instead of a baryon?
Pion
The transuranium elements are those with an atomic number greater
than of uranium. What is this number?
92
The US Army developed N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide in 1946. Today it is
sold as DEET. What do we use it for?
Repel bugs
The total number of protons and neutrons in an atom is called its ? Mass number
The principal ore of Sn is cassiterite, associated with Cornwall,
England. What is Sn?
Tin
The presence of what most corrosion-resistant element, is considered
evidence that an asteroid impact destroyed the dinosaurs?
Iridium
The periodic table is based on the atomic number of the elements. But
what is the atomic number based on?
Protons
The number varies, depending on what you count, but roughly how
many chemical elements occur naturally in nature?
80-90
The formula H 2 O means an atom of water contains two parts hydrogen
and one part which element?
Oxygen
The first artificial element was created in Italy in 1937, by a pair of
Italian chemists. What was it?
Technetium
The elements with properties which are in between those of metals and
non-metals are called?
Metalloid
The element ytterbium was nearly called aldebaranium, named in honor
of something other than a Swedish town. What?
A star in Taurus
The element samarium was named for samarskite, which in turn is
named for Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets. Who was he?
A Russian mine
official
The element lutetium was named by French chemist Georges Urbain,
who was inspired by the Latin name for what world capital?
Paris
The deficiency of what causes dehydration? Water
The chemical symbol of copper is what? Cu
The chemical element ruthenium was found in the Urals and named for
Ruthenia, a name for what peoples homeland?
Slavs
The boiling point of sea water is more than that of pure water because All of these
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of ?
Thats one heavy particle. What particle makes up 99.95 of the mass of
a hydrogen atom?
Proton
Thallium is named from the Greek thallos, in honor of its spectral
emission lines. What does thallos mean?
Green twig
Take two hydrogen atoms and attach them, 106 apart, to an oxygen
atom. What do you get?
Water
Superman would fear what rare, well-hidden gas, whose name comes
from the Greek for hidden?
Krypton
Such alloys as bronze, brass, sterling silver and pewter all use what
element?
Copper
Strontium was named indirectly for Strontian, whose name is Gaelic for
nose of the fairies. Where is Strontian?
Scotland
Sterling silver is 92.5 percent silver. What reddish metal usually makes
up the other 7.5 percent?
Copper
Stainless steel must, by definition, contain at least 12% of what element,
which stops rust at the microscopic level?
Chromium
Sometimes abbreviated D, deuterium is an isotope of what element? Hydrogen
Sodium hydroxide is known by what name, derived in part from the
Greek and Latin words for to burn
Caustic soda
Sand mainly consists of what? Quartz
Roughly what percentage of the known chemical elements are metals? 75
Rhodium is named, not for the flower, but from the Greek word for the
color of its powder. What color is that?
Rose
Relatively speaking, what is element #99 on the periodic table? Einsteinium
Reflecting 95% if the light that hits it, what element is the most lustrous
metal?
Silver
Rather dangerously, what metals oxide, dioxide and acetate forms were
used a sugar substitute to sweeten wine and other food?
Lead
Prolonged inhalation of what causes the lung cancer? Asbestos
Pour iodine on food. If it turns blue, what kind of food do you have? Starch
Plumbers worry about pipes made from what element, whose
abbreviation is Pb from the Latin plumbum?
Lead
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Platinum got its name because it was found in the same mines as
something else. What?
Silver
Plaster of Paris is made from what among these? Gypsum
Pig iron is obtained by smelting which of these iron ores? All of above
Physically and chemically, niobium is hard to tell apart from what other
element, named for Niobes father?
Tantalum
Per Teodor Cleve discovered holmium, which gets its name from the
Latin word for his hometown. Where was this?
Stockholm
Panchromium, named because it was so colorful, was renamed
vanadium, for Freya, aka Vanadis. Who was Vanadis?
A Norse goddess
Organic chemistry is concerned with compounds containing which
element?
Carbon
Once obtained by distilling animal hooves and horns, and sometimes
called alkaline air, what gass chemical formula is NH 3 ?
Ammonia
Once discovered, a new alkali element will change the periodic table by
adding an eighth row. What number will it be?
119
Once confused with lead, what hard-to-magnetize element expands
when solidifying?
Bismuth
On the scale of acid and base, pure water is neutral. What is the pH of
water?
7
On the periodic table, only two elements before lead are always
radioactive. One is technetium. What is the other?
Promethium
On the Mohs scale the hardest substance is diamond whats the
softest?
Talcum powder
Of what does classic bronze consist? Copper and tin

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Of the ten elements known in the ancient world, which on may have
been named for Cyprus, where it was extensively mined?
Copper
Now named for another element, what element was nearly called niton
(Nt)?
Radon
Normal steel reacts with the oxygen in water to create an unstable film
of iron oxide and hydroxide. What happens next?
It rusts
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New elements usually have temporary symbols that start with what two
letters?
Uu
Named for particle accelerator pioneer, element #103 was symbolized
Lw before 1963 and Lr after. What is it?
Lawrencium
Named for Buckminster Fuller, buckminsterfullerene, also known as a
buckyball, is an allotrope of what element?
Carbon
Na is the chemical symbol for which element? Sodium
Mn is the chemical symbol for which element? Manganese
Mg is the chemical symbol for which element? Magnesium
Methane, butane, ethane and propane are made with what two elements? Carbon and
hydrogen
Melted to join metallic surfaces, solder is an alloy of lead and what other
element?
Tin
Made from burnt camel dung, what gas did the Egyptians name for one
of their gods?
Ammonia
Litmus paper turns what colour when in contact with an acid? Red
Lithium and tungsten were named for the Greek and Norse words for
something. What?
Stone
K is the chemical symbol for which element? Potassium
Jons Jacob Berzelius not only identified silicon, selenium, thorium and
cerium, he also developed what system?
Chemical symbols
Its molecular formula is C 2 H 5 OH. Its empirical formula is C 2 H 6
O. What would you most likely do with it?
Drink it
It may sound like an oxymoron, but what is the most common rare earth,
and in fact is more common than lead?
Cerium
It comes from an Asian evergreen and its known for its smell. We use it
in Vicks VapoRub to suppress coughing. What is it?
Camphor
Ir is the chemical symbol for which element? Iridium
Infamous for its persistent garlic smell, what is the only element that can
bind chemically to gold?
Tellurium
In several languages, such as German, Russian and Japanese, the word
for oxygen includes the word for what item?
Acid
In its pure form, what metal is the most malleable and ductile? Gold
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In chemistry, an amphoteric substance can exhibit one of two other
contradictory properties. Which ones?
Acid and base
In 1940, a team at University of California, Berkeley, discovered the
first transuranium element. What is it?
Neptunium
If youve been poisoned by tellurium, or if youve been eating too much
Italian food, your breath might smell of what bulb root?
Garlic
If you were a platinum blond whose hair was actually spun from
platinum, what color would it be?
Silvery-white
If you wanted to mine an ore called bauxite, what would you be looking
for?
Aluminum
If something is 18/8, its 18% chromium and 8% nickel. What is it? Stainless steel
Hydrogen is the first element on the periodic table. What is the second? Helium
How many noble gases are there? Six
How many elements have one-letter chemical symbols? 14
How many elements are named after the Universal planets including
pluto?
4
How many elements are estimated to occur naturally on the earth? 92
How many carats in pure gold? 24
How is carbon-14 put to use? To date ancient
artifacts
How is a toxic substance like carbon monoxide (CO)emitted by motor
vehicles on roads and does NOT harm lives immediately?
All of these
How fast does the body start disposing of absorbed alcohol through
oxidation and excretion?
Immediately
How do you pasteurize something? Raise its temperature
Heiligenschein is also known as Cellinis halo. You might see me with
one under what conditions?
Standing on dewy
grass
Halogens get their name from the idea that form salts. Which of these is
not a halogen?
Childofmine
Gun powder is a mixture of which two fuels with an oxidant
potassium nitrate?
Carbon and sulphur
Gun metal is an alloy of how many percent of copper, tin and zinc in
proportion?
3.42363425926
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Gold, silver, zinc and aluminum all have roughly the same number on
the Mohs scale. What is it?
2.5
Getting its name from the Latin word charcoal, what element is
symbolized on the periodic table by the letter C?
Carbon
Gallium, bismuth, antimony and silicon share what unique quality with
water?
They expand when
they freeze
From the French for hydrogen power, what does knowing somethings
pH tell you?
How acidic it is
Friedrich Serturner extracted what drug from the opium poppy,
intending it as a treatment for opium addicts and alcoholics?
Morphine
Found in both CFCs and in toothpaste, what pale yellow gas is the most
reactive of all the elements?
Fluorine
Found in an ore called cinnabar, what element was named for a fleet-
footed Roman god?
Mercury
Found by Hennig Brand in his urine, while trying to prepare gold from
silver, what element is symbolized by the letter P?
Phosphorus
For what pair are the elements tellurium and selenium named? The Earth and the
Moon
For many of us, the morning just isnt right until youve had a shot of C
8 H 10 N 4 O 2 aka trimethylxanthine. Where would you get it?
From coffee
First isolated in 1808 by Humphry Davy, what element is found in lime,
cement, milk and teeth?
Calcium
Extracted from seawater, what is the only nonmetallic element thats
liquid at room temperature?
Bromine
Elements 57 to 71 hang off in a row below the rest of the periodic table.
What are they called?
Rare earths
Electrum is an alloy of gold and what other metal? Silver
Dont be too depressed about this, but at room temperature, what is the
lightest solid element (in terms of density)?
Lithium
Discovered in 1789, what element did Martin Heinrich Klaproth name
for a planet?
Uranium
Dirk Coster and Georg von Hevesy discovered hafnium in 1923 in what
city, whose Latin name is Hafnia?
Copenhagen
Didymium separated into praseodymium and neodymium, two new The Greek for twin
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elements. Where did the name didymium come from?
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is quite a poisonous mouthful. What is
it usually called?
DDT
Diamond, graphite and charcoal are all forms of which element? Carbon
DHA, or dihydroxyacetone, is the active ingredient in which beauty
process?
Sunless tanning
Deuterium and tritium have neutrons in their nucleus, but protion
doesnt. What is the more common name for protion?
Hydrogen
Deuterium and Tritium are the isotopes of which gases element? Hydrogen
Detected by the Marsh test, what dangerous element gets its name from
the Persian for yellow orpiment?
Arsenic
Despite being the most common metal in the earths crust what is never
found as free metal?
Aluminum
Darmstadtium and hassium are named for places in what country? Germany
Curium is named for both Curies, so what element, #109, is the only one
named for a woman?
Meitnerium
Created as limestone erodes, calcium oxide is CaO. What else is it
called?
Quicklime
Cooking gas LPG is a mixture of what? Butane & Propane
Colorful iridium gets its name from the Latin iris, in reference to what
colorful item?
Rainbow
Clemens Alexander Winkler discovered element #32 and named it for
his homeland. What is it?
Germanium
Chromium was named because its so colorful, and chlorine was named
because it is often one particular color. Which one?
Yellowish green
Chemically naphthalene is C 10 H 8 . What do you call it? Mothballs
Chalcocite is a valuable ore of what metal, particularly from now
depleted mines in Cornwall, England and Bristol, Connecticut?
Copper
Cast iron is 97% iron. What is the other 3%? Carbon
Carbon has three common allotropes, one of which is amorphous
carbon. Which of these is an example of amorphous carbon?
Charcoal
Carbon has 6 protons and 6 neutrons, so its atomic number is 6 what is
its nucleon number?
12
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CaCO 3 is calcium carbonate. Which of these is not? Baking soda
C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 is hard to transport because it explodes so easily what
is it?
Nitroglycerin
By what other name is sucrose commonly known? Cane sugar
By what name is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate known, for the town
in Surrey, England, where it was used in mineral springs?
Epsom salts
Bromine and osmium were both named from the Greek and Latin,
respectively, for something they have in common. What?
They smell bad
Benzene forms in rings that make it especially aromatic. What does this
mean?
It is especially stable
Because of its ultraviolet absorbing properties, what chemical
compound is used in sun protection products?
Zinc oxide
Because of its large valence shell and relatively low effective nuclear
charge, what element has the biggest atoms, by volume?
Cesium
Based on their chemical symbols, which of these elements comes first
alphabetically?
Silver
Baking soda literally cleans the air by removing acidic or base smells.
What is its pH?
8.1
As the story goes, how did Friedrich August von Kekule figure out the
ring-like structure of benzene?
It came to him in a
dream
As opposed to helium, sulfur hexafluoride has what effect on the human
body?
Deepens the voice
Argon is named for one of its properties. If you were nicknamed Argon
for the same reason, what would you be?
Inactive
Aqua regia, a mixture of fuming, corrosive acids of what can dissolve
almost all metals, including gold?
HNO 3 & HCl
Apart from Carbon and Tungsten, which element has the melting point
of 3,000C and above?
Rhenium
Any medical treatment with synthetic chemicals against infectious
disease is known as?
Chemotherapy
Antoine Lavoisier named what tetravalent metalloid for the Latin for
flint?
Silicon
Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity by accident, when
what element blackened a photographic plate?
Uranium
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An electroplating process called galvanization uses what metal to
prevent rusting?
Zinc
Among the ten most expensive metals on Earth, what was also the last
stable naturally occurring stable element to be discovered?
Rhenium

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Americium was named for both Americas. But what was the only element
named for a single continent?
Europium
Although not official, the three isotopes of hydrogen also have symbols.
Which of these is not one of them?
Q for quadrivium
Also known as smack, what drug is processed from morphine? Heroin
Also known as marsh gas, what is the main component of natural gas? Methane
Also an active ingredient in enemas, which elements compounds are used
in pyrotechnics, petroleum mining and radiology?
Barium
Alphabetically, what is the first element with a single-letter chemical
symbol?
Boron
All of these are colloids, but which one is an emulsion? Homogenized
milk
All of these are colloid, but which one is an emulsion? Homogenized
milk
After discovering nine elements, UC Berkeley was shocked when a lab in
Dubna found Element 104. Where is Dubna?
Russia
Add this to iron and you get steel. The more you add, the harder and
stronger, but more brittle, it gets. What is it?
Carbon
Acids and bases often cancel each other out. What does this leave behind? Salts
According to Charless Law, what is directly proportional to the absolute
temperature of a fixed amount of gas?
Volume
Abbreviated as Hg, what element was called hydragyrum, meaning liquid
silver?
Mercury
A white metal that burns in water, plus a poisonous green gas, combine to
make what substance?
Table salt
A substance that reacts with a basic to form salt and water is called what? Acid
A solid which changes directly to a gaseous state without passing through Sublimation
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liquid state is called?
A photon is a unit of electromagnetic energy. What similar word is a tiny
packet of sound?
Phonon
A mole is the amount of substance equal to the atoms in 12 grams of what
isotope?
Carbon-12
A little bit, in pills, helps heart patients. A lot, in dynamite, blows stuff up.
What?
Nitroglycerin
A lab at Darmstadt discovered darmstadtium, roentgenium and
copernicium. Where is Darmstadt?
Germany
A chemical whose name ends in one probably contains which element,
whose name erroneously suggests that it forms acids?
Oxygen
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is better known as 2,4-D. What is it
typically used for?
To kill weeds and
pests