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1. This first element is the most abundant element of all. It was used to provide lift for the ill-fated German airship Hindenburg. It was first noted as being a new element in 1766 by Henry Cavendish.
2. During the early 20th century, the only significant quantities of this element were refined in the United States. The Americans wouldn't sell it to the Germans because of fears that the Germans would use it for the wrong purposes (i.e. military applications).
3. This third element is used in batteries as a safer alternative to mercury. It is also used in the pyrotechnics industry due to the bright red flame it produces when burning.
4. Used mainly in the construction of high-frequency speaker drivers, this element was first discovered in 1797 by chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, when he dissolved aluminium hydroxide in an alkali solution.
5. This element is a black-brown coloured metalloid. Variants of this element are often used for making parts for semiconductors. Compounds of this element are also present in the cell walls of plants.
6. This element is used by humans during the process of refining crude oil. Without it, life wouldn't be able to exist. Trees store this element and use it to their advantage. What element is it? (Multiple elements might fit the description, but only one of them is on this list).
7. As a gas, this element is used to fill car tires (instead of air) and is also used in the medical industry (as an oxide) as an anaesthetic. It was first discovered in 1772 by Daniel Rutherford.
8. Humans need this element because, without it, we would all die. Humans breathe it in and trees and plants create it as a byproduct of photosynthesis. What element am I?
9. This next element is most commonly used in the dental health industry. In its natural form, it is a pale yellow gas. It was discovered in 1764 by Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, who heated fluorite with sulfuric acid in a glass tube.
10. This last element is a colourless, inert noble gas that anyone who lives in (or has visited) Las Vegas will be very familiar with. It emits a distinctive red-orange colour when heated up and is also used to create high visibility lighting.
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