Across
- 1. Can look like diamond
- 5. Slows the speed of light
- 7. The most common isotope of this glows in the dark
- 13. Great for eye surgery
- 17. Famous artist and composer Beethoven & Van Gogh suffered from this
- 18. Firelighters have this
- 23. Has the most highest melting point
- 25. Resists corrosion and oxidation but radioactive
- 26. Common in meteors
- 27. What keeps stars burning
- 28. Means "hard to get"
- 30. Makes black crystals that are great for superconducting
- 31. Makes your table speak
- 35. Is a little soft in its raw state
- 37. Scorpion stings have the salts for it
- 38. A light balloon filler
- 41. Twice as common as Pb82
- 42. Amazingly good at cleaning algae from ponds
- 43. Was made but it decayed in seconds
- 44. The reason Mars is red
- 46. Quite a lot of this element has been found in China
- 48. Was made in a cyclotron in UC Berkeley
- 49. Even tougher than W74
- 52. One of the few substances that expand when solid
- 53. Probably radioactive
- 57. The power behind nuclear bombs
- 58. Makes brilliant yellow paints
- 59. Rare and radioactive
- 61. Was made by hurling Zn30 and Pb82 atoms at 67M mph
- 64. Used for atomic clocks
- 65. The Hiroshima bomb contained 60kg of this element
- 66. Used for coating electronics
- 68. Does not suffer fatigue
- 71. The top conductor for electricity
- 73. Stops neutrons
- 74. Makes brilliant blue lights
- 75. Used in lamps for stage lighting
- 76. Edible (only if you make it) but reactive
- 79. Used for more useful things than bombs
- 80. Probably a noble gas
- 81. Makes invisible ink
- 85. Might be used to treat cancer
- 87. Was made by bombarding Cm96 and Ca20 atoms
- 90. Will maybe be fuel for future space probes
- 93. Is used in fountain pen tips so the ink won't run out
- 95. Both a metal and a noble gas
- 96. Usually forms as a dark-gray color
- 100. Plants can't do without it
- 101. Named after the University of California, [removed to not make it obvious]
- 102. People made toothpaste that's flavored like this (WHY?!)
- 104. Could be Os76's twin
- 107. Heals scrapes and cuts
- 108. In metal for spaceships
- 110. Spurts out radiation regularly
- 111. In Euro banknotes
- 112. From the 1950s, people argued that they created element 102
- 113. Lightest Alkali metal
- 114. Its cousins are Rh45 and Pt78
Down
- 2. Used for scanning baggage for explosives from the rays of this element
- 3. Makes tough prison bars
- 4. Is malleable
- 6. One of the most radioactive elements
- 8. Named after the creator of the cyclotron but it also was created in it
- 9. The world's rarest metal
- 10. 25% of the 5 cent coin
- 11. In "The American Eagle" coin that can sell for thousands
- 12. Smells bad
- 14. Used in bulletproof armor
- 15. We would be dead without it
- 16. Makes a deep violet laser
- 18. Diamonds or lead in pencils wouldn't exist without it
- 19. Annihilates cancers
- 20. In Germany, people suggested calling this "poltzium" because 110 is the police number in said country
- 21. People call it the "Magnet King"
- 22. Gives emeralds and rubies their color
- 24. Glows in the dark with a blue glow
- 29. Makes brilliant red fireworks
- 30. With O8, it makes 90% of the crust
- 32. Makes Tyrian purple, the Roman color
- 33. Could be Ir77's twin
- 34. In DNA
- 36. Without it, plants and animals won't produce the proteins they need
- 39. In yellowfin tuna
- 40. Is used for scanning cancers
- 45. One-thirds of brass
- 47. The 2nd heaviest known atom
- 50. The most expensive element
- 51. Light but tough
- 54. Bones would be mesh without it
- 55. 75% of the 5 cent coin
- 56. Makes car exhausts less polluting
- 60. Is the most heaviest and hardest but is Ancient Greek for stink
- 62. Named after the capital of Russia but was made in Dubna of the same country
- 63. This + Cu29 = bronze
- 67. There is a little amount of this in smoke detectors
- 68. Is banned everywhere
- 69. The main ingredient in Pepto-Bismol
- 70. People thought that it was a fun toy for kids (WHY!?)
- 72. The doses of this element are usually too low to harm someone
- 77. Was made by bombarding Bi83 and Cr24 atoms
- 78. Comes after U92 like the 8th planet is next to the 7th
- 82. Vaporizes quickly
- 83. Toxic but useful
- 84. Makes glass pink
- 86. In fake candles
- 88. Corrodes in the air but radioactive
- 89. Used for nonstick coatings in pans
- 91. Has other names like "nielsbohrium" and "hahnium"
- 92. Popular at night
- 94. One of the first superconductors
- 97. the only liquid metal normally
- 98. In metal baseball bats
- 99. Was discovered in the fallout of a nuclear bomb test in 1952
- 103. In MRI scans
- 105. There's not enough of this in the world
- 106. Napoleon died because of his wallpaper all thanks to this
- 108. Patients with stomach illnesses may swallow this so that it ends up in their gut/stomach and shows up in scanners
- 109. Plants would die without it
