Specific Elements Trivia

1. In what form could you encounter pure carbon?

From Quiz Capturing Carbon

Answer: It depends on the circumstances

Depending on the circumstances in which pure carbon is formed, it can take all of these appearances and more. Amorphous carbon is a black powder, in which the carbon atoms are scattered all over the place. It is one of the main ingredients of soot, for instance. Occasionally, it could form lumps, but this is not because of the cohesion of the carbon atoms, but of the other elements in the soot. At normal pressure and temperature, pure carbon can organise itself into greyish flakes of graphite: the carbon atoms link together into planar hexagons, which give great strength in the horizontal plane but no coherence with the upper and lower layers. That's why graphite is used for pencils: the flakes let loose easily, and each flake leaves a trace on the paper or wood you use your pencil on. Under high pressure, pure carbon condenses to diamonds: transparent solids with a crystalline structure. Diamonds are the hardest objects on earth. Pure carbon can also appear as a liquid or a gas (at high temperatures and normal to very low pressure).

From Quiz The Einsteinium Quiz

Answer: Es

The Berkeley, California team that isolated and identified the new elements 99 and 100 in radioactive debris from the first successful, large scale hydrogen bomb explosion (code named Ivy Mike), which took place at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific in November 1952, was given the privilege of naming them. Since the effort leading to the design of the device had been codenamed Project PANDA, element 99 had been nicknamed Pandemonium. When it came time to make an official suggestion, however, they proposed to name the element with atomic number 99 einsteinium (symbol E) and the element with atomic number 100 fermium (symbol Fm), after Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi respectively. Initially given as E, as the Berkeley group suggested, the symbol for Einsteinium was changed to Es in 1957 by IUPAC (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry), the world authority on chemical nomenclature and terminology including the naming of new elements. The Periodic Table includes no elements with the symbols E, Ei or Et at the time of writing, in July 2023..

From Quiz Find Some Fluorine

Answer: Gas

Pure fluorine is indeed a gas, as most non-metallic elements are. It appears as a yellow to yellow-pale green gas. Solid fluorine exists at temperatures below -220 °C and liquid fluorine evaporates at -188 °C. Pure fluorine is highly toxic and reacts violently. That's why most uses are of compounds with fluorine.

From Quiz Lithium - The Lightest Metal

Answer: Two electrons in the 1s orbital and one electron in the 2s orbital

The most common isotope of lithium is lithium-7. A neutral lithium-7 atom comprises four neutrons, three protons, and three electrons. The electron configuration of a neutral lithium atom is written as 1s^2 2s^1. In layman's terms, there are two electrons in the 1s orbital, and one electron in the 2s orbital.

From Quiz Rich, But Only in Potassium

Answer: Humphry Davy

Davy had discovered, in 1806, that he could break things into their individual elements by using electricity. Not only did he identify potassium and sodium in 1807, he went on to isolate calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron in 1808.

From Quiz Aluminum or Aluminium?

Answer: 13

Aluminum/aluminium is element number 13 of the periodic table. Its most abundant isotope (aluminum/aluminium 27) contains 13 protons and 14 neutrons. It is part of group 13 of the periodic table, a group which also includes the elements boron (5), gallium (31), indium (49) and thallium (81).

From Quiz Tin Planet

Answer: Sn

'Sn' is the element symbol for tin because it comes from the Latin 'stannum', which means an alloy of silver and lead. It was previously known as 'plumbum candidum', or 'white lead'. Ti is titanium, Au is gold and Tn is the former symbol for tungsten.

From Quiz Xenon: An Exhibitive Examination

Answer: 54

Xenon is atomic number 54 and is located in Group 18 (noble gases) of the periodic table. There are numerous synthetic and natural isotopes of the element, such as xenon-129 and xenon-132 which represent more than 50% of the element's overall abundance. The name for xenon comes from the Greek word, xenos, which means foreigner or stranger.

From Quiz Sulfur: The Stench of Life

Answer: H2SO4

By definition, an acid is a substance that can lose hydrogen (H+) protons easily. Functionally, sulfuric acid is a sulfate ion (SO42-) with two hydrogen atoms attached. A country's industrial might can be measured by its sulfuric acid production, as this in turn is needed to produce fertilisers (60% of all production), pharmaceuticals, insecticides, and cleaning products. This question was crafted by Phoenix Rising member 1nn1.

From Quiz Essentially Nitrogen - Life with Element 7!

Answer: Nitre forming

Credit for discovering nitrogen is commonly given to Scottish scientist Daniel Rutherford in 1772. British scientist, Henry Cavendish and Swedish (Pomeranian) scientist Carl Scheele, also found nitrogen around the same time. The name nitrogen is derived from 'nitre forming' where nitre is still the common name for potassium nitrate (which is also, and somewhat confusingly called saltpetre) and used in gunpowder and fertilizer. The name 'nitrogen' was proposed nearly 20 years after the discovery of the element after it was determined that it was found in nitric acid and nitrate salts.

From Quiz Element 100

Answer: Fm

Fermium was discovered on November 1, 1952 after being discovered in the fallout of the first hydrogen bomb test. It was discovered by scientist Albert Ghiorso and his co-workers at the University of Berkeley in California. Ghiorso was renowned for many physics and nuclear related experiments including work related to the Manhattan Project. Following the Second World War, Ghiorso, in collaboration with others discovered a variety of new elements including berkelium, californium, einsteinium, and fermium. During the 1950s Ghiorso was in charge of the Berkeley Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator that was used to discover nobelium , lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium and seaborgium. From the 1970s to the 1990s, his research mainly involved producing or identifying superheavy elements that are now a part of the 107-118 range on the periodic table of elements.

From Quiz Pay the Iron Price

Answer: Fe

Fe, the symbol for iron, comes from the Latin term for this metal, 'ferrum'. The Latin word can also refer to any tool made of iron, or to a sword. Iron's atomic number is 26, its atomic weight is 55.847 (26 protons, 30 neutrons and 26 electrons).

From Quiz Breathe deep: Oxygen

Answer: 8

Oxygen is the 8th element in the periodic table. Most oxygen nuclei have 8 neutrons as well, making oxygen 16 by far the most common isotope although oxygen 17 and 18 are stable as well. Oxygen 16 is favored by stellar element synthesis as its nucleus consists of four alpha particles.

From Quiz All That Glisters Is Not Gold

Answer: Gold occurs naturally in its metallic form

Gold, along with silver and copper, is one of the very few metals that occurs naturally in its pure, metallic form. It took a long time for people to learn to smelt metals from their ores, but gold occurs naturally, in the form of nuggets and flakes, making it one of the few metals that ancient peoples could find and exploit without having to refine it. The oldest known gold artefacts are from a site in Bulgaria called Varna, which dates from around 4600 BC. The artefacts at Varna are quite sophisticated, indicating that gold was mined and worked long before that date.

From Quiz Bromine: An Unusual Element

Answer: Foul smelling

Bromine is derived from the Greek word "brómos," meaning strong-smelling or stench. It has a very disagreeable odor, something like that of chlorine.

From Quiz "The devil's element"; a closer look at phosphorus

Answer: It was the 13th element to be formally discovered

This was the first element to be formally discovered which was not previously known as a distinct substance.

From Quiz Xenon Is Just One

Answer: 18

Xenon lies in group 18. This group is also known as group 0. Other elements in this group are helium, neon, argon, krypton and radon.

From Quiz There's Too Much Radon!

Answer: Noble gases

There are six naturally occurring noble gases: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon. At STP (standard temperature and pressure) the noble gases are odorless and colorless. They also do not react very easily.

From Quiz Investigating Interesting Indium Information

Answer: From its indigo spectral lines

Indium was discovered by two German scientists, and its name has nothing to do with Indiana or India or any other place, nor was there a "Roberto Indio". Different light has different wavelengths. Instead of traveling straightly, a light particle (or photon) travels up and down in curved crests as it moves forward, and the size of these crests is the wavelength. Different colors are the result of different wavelengths of light. Whenever an electron in an atom goes from a higher energy orbit around the nucleus of an atom to a lower energy orbit state (meaning the electron goes into an orbit closer to the middle of the atom), a photon is emitted. The wavelength of the photon depends on the atom (all atoms in a pure sample of an element are identical); that is to say, each element has different photon wavelengths from the orbit change of electrons, and thus different colors from these specific photons. These different colors are called spectral lines. Indium's is dominately indigo/blue and, at the time of its discovery, no other element had this spectral line "signature", leading those who saw it to conclude that it must come from an undiscovered element. However, indium itself is silvery-white (like most elemental metals) and not indigo. That is because the color of indium that we see is caused by the wavelengths of the light bouncing off it, different from the spectral line photons that come from it.

From Quiz The Dark Side of Calcium

Answer: Hard water

High concentrations of both calcium and magnesium ions dissolved in water is more commonly known as 'hard water'. At home, this will leave white residue on your taps, kettles, shower heads, and any other devices that use water, such as, more often than not, heating elements. As a quick test to see how hard your water is, pour some soap into tap water in a bowl. The easier it is to make suds, the softer your water is. In Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan has one of the hardest tap waters, whereas Vancouver, British Columbia has one of the softest. As far as health concerns and hard water go, there haven't been any conclusive papers published that link hard water to any diseases and conditions. So, the only real trouble with hard water is cleaning the white crud out of the pipes or off of surfaces. Usually, vinegar is an easy way to clean it off.

From Quiz Carbon: Incestuous and Promiscuous

Answer: diamond

Diamond's unique properties are due to its structure and the small size of the carbon atom. Silicon forms the same structure as diamond, but is not nearly as hard, probably because the small size of the carbon atom allows stronger bonding.

From Quiz Tin: An Interesting Element

Answer: Bronze

Around 3300 BC, it was discovered that adding small amounts of tin to copper resulted in an alloy that was harder and more durable than either metal alone. Soon bronze was being used to manufacture tools, weapons, jewelry, and many other items. It was so important to the advancement of civilization that the period between 3300 and 1200 BC is known as the Bronze Age.

From Quiz Helium - The Balloon Gas

Answer: 2 neutrons, 2 protons and 2 electrons

The atomic number refers to the number of protons in the atom. In a neutral atom, the number of electrons equals to the number of protons. Meanwhile, the mass number is the sum of the number of protons and the number of neutrons.

From Quiz Nitrogen

Answer: native soda forming

Gr. Nitron, native soda; and genes, forming

From Quiz Chlorine

Answer: green

It is a greenish-yellow gas, combining directly with nearly all elements.

From Quiz Actinium

Answer: Ac

The chemical symbol for actinium is Ac. Its atomic number is 89, and its atomic weight is 227.0.

From Quiz The Strategy of Titanium

Answer: 4.5 grams per cc

The density of copper is a little less than 9 g per cc. Although Ti is light weight, it's much stronger compared to aluminium. Thus the metal is priced for its high 'strength to weight ratio'. Alloyed with aluminium it is used to make aircraft parts. It is also used to make military hardwares, sometimes alloyed with tungsten.

From Quiz Krypton

Answer: Kr

'K' is potassium (Latin: {kalium);} 'Sm' is Samarium (not Superman). 'Kt' is not a valid symbol.

From Quiz Lithium

Answer: 1817

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From Quiz Sodium

Answer: [Ne] 3s1

Sodium is an alkaline metal, so its configuration is that of a noble gas plus a single s-orbital electron. 1s1 is hydrogen, [Ne] 3s2 3p5 is chlorine and [Ar] 3d6 4s2 is iron.

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