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From everyday metals and gases to chemical symbols with surprising Latin roots, how well do you know the elements? Play free online!
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Hydrogen makes up the vast majority of ordinary matter in stars, including the Sun.
Iron's symbol Fe comes from the Latin ferrum, and steel is iron alloyed with a little carbon.
Mendeleev left gaps in his table for undiscovered elements and successfully predicted the properties of several of them.
Diamond and graphite are both pure carbon, differing only in how the atoms are arranged.
Elements in the same group have the same number of outer-shell electrons, which is why they behave so similarly.
Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, which made it ideal for glowing filaments in traditional light bulbs.
Chlorine is a pale green-yellow gas whose name comes from the Greek chloros, meaning green-yellow, and it kills germs in pool water.
Lead's symbol Pb comes from the Latin plumbum, because Roman water pipes were made of it, which is also why we call pipe-fitters plumbers.
The lanthanides are often called the rare earth elements, though most are not especially rare in the Earth's crust.
Technetium has no stable isotopes, yet its metastable isotope technetium-99m is one of the most widely used tracers in medical imaging.
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