Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt

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  1. 1. Chemists described this element as cryptic (meaning hidden) because it is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas with a concentration of only about 1 part per million in the atmosphere.
  2. 3. This element was know in ancient times. It was mined originally on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus from which the element obtained its Greek name cuprum.
  3. 4. The second of three consecutive elements named after planets
  4. 6. This element is strong, corrosion resistant, and has many uses in the aerospace and defense industries. It derives its name from the mythological Greek Titans who were extremely strong.
  5. 8. This element was named from the Latin word fluere meaning "to flow" because its compounds are often used as a fluxes in metallurgy.
  6. 10. Frenchman Paul-Emile Lecoq named the element he discovered after the ancient Latin name for his homeland.
  7. 12. This element was named after a cleaning compound, which was found to contain large quantities of it.
  8. 14. Chemists Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff were examining the spectral emissions of an ore known as lepidolite when they discovered a dark ruby-red spectral line never seen before. The element they subsequently discovered derived its name from the color of its spectral emission line.
  9. 15. This element was named in honor of two famous French chemists: Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.
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  1. 2. This is the only element in the d-block that has not been isolated from the Earth's crust. It derives its name from the fact tat it had to be synthesized by technical means.
  2. 5. The third of three consecutive elements named after planets
  3. 7. The original Latin name of this element was hydrargyrus, meaning liquid silver. Known as "quick silver" the symbol of this element reflects its original Latin name
  4. 9. A spectral analysis of this element shows that it emits a very strong indigo (blue-violet) colored line.
  5. 11. The ancient Romans made water pipes out of this metal, and the terms "plumbing" and "plumber" were derived from its original Latin name.
  6. 13. Named for the university where many of the transuranium elements were synthesized
  7. 16. The first of three consecutive elements named after planets