Periodic Table Quiz
(ORIGIN OF NAMES)
1.
Which element in the periodic table is
named after the city of Stockholm?
2.
Which element in the periodic table is
named after the Rhine river of Europe?
3.
Apart from Francium which other element
in the periodic table is named after France?
4.
Which element is named after the city of
Copenhagen of Denmark?
5.Which element in the periodic table is
named after a Greek word which means “the hidden ones” as it is odourless and
colourless?
6.
Name the element named after Earth.
7.
Name the element named after the Moon.
8.
What is common to the elements
Yttrium(Y), Erbium(Er),Terbium(Tb) and Ytterbium(Yb)?
9.
The element mercury is named after “Mercury”
the God of speed and the messenger of the God. However its symbol is Hg which
comes from a Latin word which means “water-silver”, as it is liquid like water
at room temperature and has a characteristic silvery lusture. What is this
Latin word?
10.
Which is the only element in the
periodic table to be officially named after a person when he was still alive?
11.
Which element in the periodic table is
named after the city of Paris?
12.
Which element is named after Cyprus?
13.
Which element is named after a German
word which means evil spirit?
14.
Why is the element with atomic number 49
named as indium (In) after the word indigo?
15.
Which element was called “Eka-thulium” by Mendeleev?
16.
In
alphabetical order which element comes first and which comes at the end among
the elements officially named so far?
17.
After whom the element with atomic
number 112 (Ununbium) has been named recently?
18.
Which element is named after a Greek
word which means “a foreigner”, or “a stranger” ?
19.
Which element was recently named in honor of Georgy Flyorov, who was at
the forefront of Soviet nuclear
physics and founder of the Joint Institute
for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered?
20.
What is the origin of
the name magnesium?
Answers
1.
Holmium(Ho), Homia is the Latin word for Stockholm.
2.
Rhenium(Re), from the Latin Rhenus which refer to river Rhine.
3.
Gallium(Ga), Gallia is the Latin for France, Gaul
is the name of ancient France.
4.
Hafnium(Hf), Latin Hafnia refers to Copenhagen.
5.
Krypton( Kr), named after the Greek word
Kryptos.
6.
Tellurium (Te), Tellus is the Latin for the Earth.
7.
Selenium (Se), Selene is the Greek for the Moon.
8.
They are all named after Ytterby, a
village in Sweden.
9.
Hydrargyrum.
10.
Seaborgium (Sg), named after American
chemist Glenn T. Seaborg.
11.
Lutetium (Lu), Lutetia is the Latin for Paris.
12.
Copper (Cu).
13.
Cobalt (Co), comes from German Kobold,
means "evil spirit", the metal being so called by miners, because it
was poisonous and troublesome (polluted and
degraded the other mined elements, like Nickel).
14.
Because it has a characteristic indigo
line in its spectrum.
16.
Actinium (Ac) comes first and Zirconium
(Zr) comes at the end.
17.
After astronomer Copernicus, Copernicium
(Cn)
18.
Xenon (Xe)
20.
The word magnesium comes from a place
called Magnesia which was district of Thessaly
in ancient Greece where it was first found.
