@crackers32 you forgot to include cadmium in your quiz, so it's 11, not 10.pantone159 - 15-6-2017 at 13:29
It did not accept cadmium nor copernicium. So I got 12/10 TheNerdyFarmer - 15-6-2017 at 14:11
I got eight of 12 j_sum1 - 15-6-2017 at 21:29
Just twelve huh?
I get a few more than that.
Celtium Ct was a name proposed for what is now hafnium.
Catium, also Ct was eventually called francium.
And who could forget columbium Cb, which was eventually called niobium -- although it took a while for the name to stick in some parts of the world.
(IUPAC eventually made a call on that one in 1949.)
Then there is Ceresium Ce from the days when new elements were named after newly named planetary bodies and people thought Ceres might be a cool bit
of rock. Evidently someone thought Pallas was even cooler.
Cassiopeium Cp was never all that popular. But when did you last hear of anyone doing anything much with lutetium? I guess the inhabitants of Paris
were happy.
I won't count cyclonium Cy since californium has already been included.
So -- can I score 17 out of 10?
C, Ca, Cb, Cd, Ce and Ce, Cf, Cl, Cm, Cn, Co, Cp, Cr, Cs, Ct and Ct, Cu and Cy.nezza - 15-6-2017 at 23:38
12/12. Copernicium took a while to remember.macckone - 16-6-2017 at 17:12
10/12 forgot curium and copernicium
Although to be fair copernicium was not
named when I was in school.unionised - 17-6-2017 at 03:17
