Elements of the Periodic Table
Across
- 2. Element named for European country not independent at the time it was discovered
- 4. Radioactive noble gas
- 5. Common dissolved element in seawater that increases with depth due to dissolution of foraminfera
- 7. Element with an isotope that can be used for dating up to 50,000 years
- 8. Artificial element that is soluble in seawater, released from plutonium re-processing facilities in Britain and France and can serve as a tracer
- 10. Natural element that has a long-lived radioisotope that is used as a conservative seawater tracer and is also concentrated by marine algae
- 11. Name of element whose nucleus is also an alpha particle
- 12. Element named after the major planet furthest from the Sun
- 13. Rare metal named in honor of a country with three colors on its flag
- 14. Particle-reactive element with no stable isotopes
- 16. One of the elements in beach sand
- 18. Element remaining at the end of the uranium decay series
- 19. Element named for Norse god
Down
- 1. Element that is contributing to pollution from Fukushima (use American, rather than British spelling)
- 2. Element that is source of largest radioactivity burden for seafood eaters
- 3. Element with no stable isotopes that has a conservative water column profile
- 6. Artificial metal named in honor of a country with three colors on its flag
- 9. Metal that increases in concentration with depth due to hydrothermal vent activity
- 15. Dissolved gas missing from the bottom of the Arabian Sea
- 17. Poisonous metal that is taken up by phytoplankton and shows a similar distribution as does phosphate
- 20. Dissolved gas with a subsurface or surface maximum