Select the elements below that have symbols that don't start with the letter of the element itself?
There are 10 correct entries. Get 3 incorrect and the game ends.
Sodium Oxygen FluorineHydrogen Mercury Nitrogen Gold Iron Carbon Sulphur Potassium Tin Uranium Boron Tungsten Silver Antimony Yttrium Vanadium Lead
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
Answer:
Na is sodium, from the Arabic term for soda (natronium), K is potassium, which ultimately traces back to 'kali', another Arabic term, meaning 'plant ash'. Ferrum is the Latin word for iron, while Au, Ag, Sn also derive from Latin, meaning gold, silver and tin. The origin of Sb for antimony is a bit debateable, but seems to come from the Greek 'stibium', meaning 'mark', as it was used as an dark eye makeup. Tungsten (from Swedish 'heavy stone'), comes from wolframite ore, hence its symbol 'W'. Mercury derives its Hg symbol from the Greek, hydrargyrum, meaning 'water silver'. Plumbum is the Latin word for lead, and is the source of the modern word, plumber.
Did you notice that all the wrong answers only have one character in their symbols? H = hydrogen, B = boron, C = carbon, F = fluorine, N = nitrogen, O = oxygen, U = uranium, V = vanadium and Y = yttrium.
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