Elemental Etymology--Easy (Periodic Table)
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Author's Game Description
What do the names of selected elements mean? Brackets add information, parens give the languages of origin. (I've interpreted names to better fit text blocks.)
Image by Armtuk at Wikimedia/Wikipedia
Category: Science Games
Created by tickman, 1 Aug, 2009
Tags: elements, Linguistics, Periodic-Table, science
4 ratingsPlayed 29 times | 0 Fav's
tickman 3 months ago
tickman 3 months ago
@ Lilili:
Thanks. I might try a more complete version later. But I did take most of the best ones already...
Lilili 3 months ago
This is an awesome one, I hope you make an even more complete version!
tickman 3 months ago
More about these etymologies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_element_name_etymologies
More about the periodic table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
Find this version of the periodic table here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_Table_Armtuk3.svg
The file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.
Details:
| Highscores — Elemental Etymology--Easy (Periodic Table) | Place 1 - 5 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 1 | slaaty | 100% | 1:04.3 min. | 2 Nov, 2009 |
| 2 | Aquambulushirsutus | 100% | 1:08.9 min. | 2 Aug, 2009 |
| 3 | tickman | 100% | 1:12.5 min. | 4 Aug, 2009 |
| 4 | Wentu | 100% | 1:30.8 min. | 2 Aug, 2009 |
| 5 | Lilili | 100% | 2:26.3 min. | 1 Aug, 2009 |
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The hard version is here:
http://www.purposegames.com/game/elemental-etyomologies-challenging-periodic-table-quiz/info