Physics & Chemistry
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The transition metal with atomic number 106 is written on the periodic table as _ _.
Element 114 honors the Soviet physicist who pioneered the study of spontaneous nuclear fission.
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Nihonium was the first-ever element discovered by a research team based on which continent?
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Element 118 was discovered by a team based at a joint nuclear institute known by a four-letter acronym. What is it?
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Elements 107, 108, and 109 were all first synthesized at the same laboratory, located in which European country?
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Element 111 honors the physicist credited with discovering X-rays back in 1895.
ROENTGENAtomic number 118, the heaviest element ever created, has the symbol _ _.
OGElement 106 was named, while its honoree was still living, after an American chemist who helped discover plutonium.
SEABORGElement 103, the last member of the actinide series, uses the symbol _ _.
LRThe block of elements numbered 89 to 103, including several made only in nuclear labs, is collectively known as the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
ACTINIDESElement 107, a superheavy transition metal, uses the two-letter symbol _ _.
BHThe post-transition metal at atomic number 116 uses the symbol _ _.
LVThe first of the seventh-row transition metals, atomic number 104, has the symbol _ _.
RFElement 117 is named for the American state whose national laboratory helped supply the rare materials needed for its discovery.
TENNESSEEThe transition metal at atomic number 109 has the symbol _ _.
MTAtomic number 114, a post-transition metal, carries the symbol _ _.
FLThe actinide with atomic number 102 is represented by the symbol _ _.
NOElement 103 honors the American physicist who invented the cyclotron particle accelerator.
LAWRENCEElement 107 honors the Danish physicist famous for his early model of atomic structure.
BOHRElements 101, 103, and 106 were all first synthesized in the same country, home to a famous Berkeley nuclear lab.
USAElement 109 honors the Austrian-Swedish physicist who helped explain nuclear fission.
MEITNERElement 110 is named after the German city where six superheavy elements were first created.
DARMSTADTElement 115 is named after the Russian region surrounding its country's capital city.
MOSCOWThis superheavy element, discovered in 1996 and honoring astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, uses the symbol _ _.
CNElement 110 on the periodic table is abbreviated _ _.
DSElement 118 belongs to a family of gases so unreactive they are often called "_ _ _ _ _" gases, the same family as helium and neon.
NOBLEElement 116 honors a California research laboratory affiliated with the University of California.
LIVERMOREElement 101 was named to honor the 19th-century Russian scientist who first arranged the elements into a periodic table.
MENDELEEVAtomic number 111, first made in a German lab in 1994, has the symbol _ _.
RGAtomic number 101 on the periodic table has the two-letter symbol _ _.
MDElement 115 on the periodic table is written as _ _.
MCElement 105 is named for the Russian town where its discovering laboratory is based.
DUBNAAtomic number 108's official chemical symbol is _ _.
HSElement 113, the first element ever named by an Asian research team, has the symbol _ _.
NHElements 114 through 117 were all discovered by teams based primarily in which country?
RUSSIAElement 113's name is a nod to the country whose scientists discovered it, the first Asian nation to name an element.
JAPANElement 102 takes its name from the Swedish industrialist who endowed science's most famous annual prizes.
NOBELElement 117 is the heaviest known member of the same chemical family as chlorine and iodine, called the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
HALOGENSElement 117, the heaviest known member of the halogen family, has the symbol _ _.
TSAtomic number 105, synthesized independently by rival Cold War-era labs, carries the symbol _ _.
DBElement 108 is named for the German state that is home to its discovering laboratory.
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