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    Which element comes next in this sequence: oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, manganese, molybdenum, tellurium, tungsten...?

    Question #59998. Asked by gmackematix. (Oct 16 05 4:28 AM)


    perfectangel13

    		This is driving me crazy! Could you answer two yes or no questions (this one and the one after this)?

    Does it have anything to do with their atomic numbers?

    Oct 16 05, 3:32 PM
    gmackematix

    		Yes, I can answer your question.
    No, it is nothing to so with atomic numbers.

    Applaud anger is my clue to the next one.

    Oct 16 05, 5:12 PM
    romeomikegolf

    		If oxygen and nitrogen were the other way round I would say it was the order in which they were discovered, in which case the next would be Uranium.

    Oct 17 05, 1:22 AM
    gmackematix

    		Yay Robboy, for uranium!
    Oxygen 1771, Nitrogen 1772,...,Uranium 1779

    The clue, "Applaud anger" was "clap wrath", a hint at Klaproth, the discoverer of uranium.
    Apparently, the first element to be isolated since antiquity was arsenic.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoveries_of_the_chemical_elements

    Oct 17 05, 4:34 AM
    peasypod

    		I'm sure robboy would just love a Golden Banana from you, gmack, dear, but poor old romeo might get a little miffed...

    Oct 17 05, 5:37 AM
    gmackematix

    		So sorry RMG. I must be going prematurely senile.

    Oct 17 05, 6:11 PM

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