Periodic Table

[asterroc]

Looking for a simple periodic table to include in a test (unsuccessful, but I've got a copy at work, and it's not really needed), I stumbled across an online test-your-memory version. I am proud to say that despite the astronomy quips of "there's Hydrogen, Helium, and everything else," "we have three elements: X, Y, and Z," and "everything other than Hydrogen and Helium is a metal," I managed to get 7 right on my first try. I knew where Berylium was (it and Lithium are important in cosmology), but forgot the "e" in Be. The others were CNO, useful in fusion in massive stars, and in general science classes. Another couple attempts saw me place Argon and Xenon, but I didn't have the patience to narrow down where the 10 or so others whose names I know would be located. Sadly I don't know where Iron (Fe - last thing that everything fuses to naturally in massive stars) or Uranium (I have a nice talk on nuclear powerplants that will see Homeland Security drag me away someday) are located.

If you give it a shot, along with telling me your score, please tell me your college major or occupation so I don't feel so bad. :-P

Comments

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

32 correct, 1 incorrect (I put the symbol for radon down incorrectly). I'm a chem major. but I want to do stuff with orgo, so I dont know any of the transition metal locations off the top of my head too well, other than Sc and V (yet i forget what lies between them).