Stats: Chemical Elements from clues

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Chemical symbol Be.	Beryllium	100%
Often used to fill balloons.	Helium	100%
Commonly used in energy dense batteries.	Lithium	100%
Main constituent of air.	Nitrogen	100%
Required for breathing by animals.	Oxygen	100%
One of the required constituents of organic molecules.	Carbon	92%
The most abundant element in the universe.	Hydrogen	92%
Bones are made from this.	Calcium	83%
Used to keep swimming pools clean.	Chlorine	83%
Part of a common additive to drinking water and toothpaste.	Fluorine	83%
Commonly used in bright signage.	Neon	83%
Combined with another element to form table salt.	Sodium	83%
Combined with another element to form Borax.	Boron	75%
The most widely used metal on Earth.	Iron	75%
Commonly used light weight metal.	Aluminium	67%
Provides the smell in rotten eggs.	Sulphur	67%
Burns with a bright white flame.	Magnesium	58%
Typically used in welding as a shielding gas.	Argon	50%
Electrical wiring is made from this.	Copper	50%
Named after the European country of birth of its discoverer.	Germanium	50%
This gas is often confused with Superman's home planet.	Krypton	50%
Discovered in 1879 in minerals from Scandinavia.	Scandium	50%
Known for its incredible strength to weight ratio.	Titanium	50%
US coin of this name is an alloy made with 25% this element.	Nickel	42%
Best known for its use in circuit boards.	Silicon	42%
Known for its toxicity although this element was eaten in Victorian times.	Arsenic	33%
It has a very low melting point (30 °C, 86 °F).	Gallium	33%
It is one of the 35 technology-critical elements.	Niobium	33%
So soft of a metal that it can be cut with a knife.	Potassium	33%
Best known for creating artificial gemstones.	Zirconium	33%
Known for its distinctive brown colour.	Bromine	25%
Known for taking a high polish.	Chromium	25%
Widely used in battery and petroleum production.	Cobalt	25%
Used widely as a disinfectant.	Iodine	25%
Named after the creator of the first periodic table.	Mendelevium	25%
Known for being liquid at room temperature.	Mercury	25%
Named for the next item in the sequence following the element it is created from (U).	Neptunium	25%
Used in the core of the arc reactor in Iron Man.	Palladium	25%
The main use (50%) of this element is in glass manufacturing.	Selenium	25%
Argentina gets its name from this metal.	Silver	25%
Best known as a fission by product small amounts are now found across the world.	Strontium	25%
The first "man-made" element as its name suggests.	Technetium	25%
Named after the Norse god of thunder.	Thorium	25%
One of the first metals to be extracted and used.	Tin	25%
Additive in steel manufacture especially where hardness is valued.	Vanadium	25%
Named for the village it was discovered in on the island of Resarö.	Yttrium	25%
Used as a sacrificial anode on boats.	Zinc	25%
Its name comes from the Greek 'actinos', meaning a ray.	Actinium	17%
Its name means "Not Alone" which is fitting as it is often alloyed with lead.	Antimony	17%
Used to highlight the GI tract during X-rays.	Barium	17%
Named after the US town it was discovered in.	Berkelium	17%
This metal was used alongside Ni in batteries but is being phased out.	Cadmium	17%
Used in the standard definition of a second.	Caesium	17%
Named after the US state it was discovered in.	Californium	17%
Named after the husband and wife who pioneered research on radioactivity.	Curium	17%
Named for the Russian Town where it was first reported.	Dubnium	17%
Named after one of the most well known physicists.	Einsteinium	17%
Named after the inventor of the first particle accelerator.	Lawrencium	17%
It was used for plumbing until it was found to be toxic.	Lead	17%
Named after the Californian Laboratory that collaborated on its discovery.	Livermorium	17%
Most widely used in steel production but also essential for all life forms.	Manganese	17%
86% of annual production is used as a steel additive especially for tools.	Molybdenum	17%
Named after the capital of Russia.	Moscovium	17%
Known for catching on fire when exposed to air.	Phosphorous	17%
It was named for Poland by Marie Curie.	Polonium	17%
It was used to make watch and clock hands glow.	Radium	17%
One of the alkali metals, this element is used to make purple fireworks.	Rubidium	17%
This member of the platinum group is named after Russia.	Ruthenium	17%
This synthetic element is named after the father of nuclear physics.	Rutherfordium	17%
This gas is the most commonly used propellant of the Hall-effect thruster.	Xenon	17%
Used in ionization smoke detectors.	Americium	8%
It forms incredibly attractive crystal structures.	Bismuth	8%
A synthetic element named after the creator of the model of the atom.	Bohrium	8%
Named after astronomer who placed the Sun at the centre of the universe.	Copernicium	8%
Named after the founder of nuclear energy.	Fermium	8%
The most reactive of the alkali group although only 1oz/28g exists at a time on earth.	Francium	8%
This metal has been highly prized throughout history.	Gold	8%
Named after the German state where it was discovered.	Hassium	8%
Another technology-critical element this is used in flat screens and semiconductors.	Indium	8%
A constellation of 77 satellites was named after this element.	Iridium	8%
Used in studio lighting.	Lanthanum	8%
The hardest of the Lanthanides.	Lutetium	8%
Used for making the strongest known permanent magnets.	Neodymium	8%
Named after the founder of a prestigious science award and inventor of dynamite.	Nobelium	8%
This is the most dense metal.	Osmium	8%
This is the least reactive metal.	Platinum	8%
Used in Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators to power spacecraft.	Plutonium	8%
Decays into Ac.	Protactinium	8%
This radioactive 'gas' escapes from rocks and soil around the world.	Radon	8%
Discovered in 1803 and is named for its Rose colour.	Rhodium	8%
A transuranium element it was the first to be named after a person whilst they were still alive.	Seaborgium	8%
Its name is derived from the Roman goddess of the Earth.	Tellurium	8%
Named after a US State.	Tennessine	8%
Due to its hardness this is often used to give cutting tools a long lasting edge.	Tungsten	8%
Known for being the main nuclear fuel.	Uranium	8%
This is also named after the same village as Y.	Ytterbium	8%
Short lived with a half-life of 8.1hrs it decays into Bi or Po.	Astatine	0%
The main industrial use is for polishing.	Cerium	0%
Named after the Germany city where it was first produced.	Darmstadtium	0%
Used in dosimeters to detect ionizing radiation.	Dysprosium	0%
Used in long distance fibre optic cables.	Erbium	0%
It is widely used as a red phosphor in TVs.	Europium	0%
Named after the founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.	Flerovium	0%
It is used as a contrast agent in MRIs.	Gadolinium	0%
Used for control rods in nuclear reactors because it is a good neutron absorber.	Hafnium	0%
It can turn cubic Zr crystals pink.	Holmium	0%
Named after the female scientist that discovered Nuclear Fission.	Meitnerium	0%
Named after Japan.	Nihonium	0%
Named after the leader of the Russian-American team at the JINR.	Oganesson	0%
Used for colouring glass and staining ceramics.	Praseodymium	0%
This is the only radioactive lanthanide.	Promethium	0%
It has the 3rd highest melting point and is 4th most dense.	Rhenium	0%
Named after the discoverer of X-rays.	Roentgenium	0%
It makes strong magnets that better resist demagnetization than those made of Nd.	Samarium	0%
This metal is used to make surgical equipment and implants.	Tantalum	0%
It is used as a green phosphor in TVs.	Terbium	0%
It is a tasteless, odourless poison.	Thallium	0%
Used as an X-Ray source in portable X-Rays.	Thulium	0%

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