The Periodic Table

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1. The element symbol W stands for tungsten. From which alternative name for the element does that W derive?

   • Wolfram
   • Wollastonium
   • Wulfenite
   • Wolframite

2. The symbol Sb, derived from the Latin stibium, belongs to which element?

   • Antimony
   • Strontium
   • Samarium
   • Scandium

3. Which element takes its symbol Pb from the Latin word plumbum?

   • Phosphorus
   • Platinum
   • Lead
   • Palladium

4. The symbol Sn, from the Latin stannum, denotes which element?

   • Silicon
   • Tin
   • Selenium
   • Strontium

5. Which element carries the symbol K, taken from the Latin name kalium?

   • Calcium
   • Krypton
   • Cobalt
   • Potassium

6. The symbol Hg, from the term hydrargyrum meaning 'water-silver', represents which element?

   • Hafnium
   • Hydrogen
   • Helium
   • Mercury

7. Mendeleev left a gap in his periodic table for an undiscovered element he called eka-aluminium. Which element, isolated in 1875, turned out to fill it?

   • Indium
   • Germanium
   • Scandium
   • Gallium

8. At a room temperature of about 25 degrees C, which of these elements is the only one that is both a metal and a liquid?

   • Gallium
   • Bromine
   • Caesium
   • Mercury

9. Which element was named by Marie Curie after her native country?

   • Polonium
   • Germanium
   • Francium
   • Americium

10. Helium was first detected in the spectrum of sunlight in 1868, before it was ever isolated on Earth.

    • True
    • False

11. The chemical symbol for gold is Gd.

    • True
    • False

12. In the modern IUPAC numbering, the noble gases such as neon and argon make up Group ___, the rightmost column of the periodic table.

13. The chemical symbol for silver, ___, is taken from its Latin name argentum.