Elements by Picture Quiz

I don't think there is any mercury in that thermometer.

Either way it is still strongly associated with it

I though the lightbulb would be argon

I have heard most of the old ones are gone.

Tungsten is the filament that glows, Argon is used as a gas inside the bulb.

That's the Grohnde nuclear power plant, and it uses both uranium and plutonium. (Environmentalists weren't too happy about the latter.)

Were environmentalists happy about the former?

But really, are environmentalists ever happy?

Even factoring in the worst nuclear disasters in history, and using the most liberal estimates for casualties from Chernobyl, etc., nuclear power has still killed fewer people and done less damage to the environment than coal or oil.

@kalbahamut Is part of that not just because it's been around for less time?

May you accept Wolfram for tungsten?

A very cool quiz!

I totally typed Chrome as a joke. Thanks for accepting it. :-)

Haha! That's funny!

why uranium???

I could only see grass, concrete and water there...

But that's the thing. Looking at that picture, all I could see are a couple of cooling towers, which are not exclusively used in nuclear plants but in other types of power plants and factories as well. Didn't cross my head at all that it was a nuclear plant. I kept thinking of water vapor, which isn't an element, so I started typing air elements like Oxygen and Nitrogen. It's either I am extremely delusional or that clue needs a more specific picture.

HatemAli: you are extremely delusional.

My first thought was sulphur due to scrubbing it from the emissions of coal plants using electrostatics, but got it in the end.

I agree with hatemAli. Most cooling towers that I see are associated with conventional (fossil fuel) power plants. I could see nothing in the picture that suggested otherwise and so I too was trying carbon, oxygen, hydrogen etc. I think a better photo is needed.

Hatemali sounds like you’re in the minority of people who couldn’t figure out that this was supposed to be a nuclear power plant

How about a picture of a Uranium mine with a big sign saying URANIUM and a miner holding a lump of uranium with a big arrow pointing at it.

you could make that majority, because only 48% got it right.

Those cooling towers looks exactly like the coal fired power plants in the Latrobe Valley near where I live in Australia. It is a bad pictorial clue because the cooling towers are not unique to nuclear plants. Go and look up pictures of the Yallourn coal powered plant I'm talking about if you don't believe me.

@Malbaby A miner holding a lump of uranium? That's wouldn't be very safe!

Well, I was well and truly stumped. A nuclear plant never occurred to me from looking at that picture, none in New Zealand. We have a coal powered plant that looks like this though.

very fun quiz. thanks

Don't feel too bad. I did the same thing.

Did it as well...

Nice quiz!

I'm liking these "by picture" quizzes! Great idea! Keep em coming.

Was trying to think of an element connected with cooling towers and going through various pollutants. Any chance you can make the picture more specifically nuclear?

Well nuclear bomb would be Hydrogen since they are called Hydrogen Bombs, Nuclear plants use Uranium but that doesn't mean everything with Nuclear in it uses Uranium

I knew over half of them, but I didn’t know what they are in English.

I thought for sure the "light bulb" answer had to be phosphorus. I kept trying different spellings of that, instead of trying to think of other potential answers. Oops.

I agree. I might even put chlorine as another answer for salt, since it has the same amount of sodium and chlorine atoms in each compound.

Probably the grass.

For the last one I had to remind myself that Pentium isn't actually an element.

I feel like for the picture of table salt, both Sodium and Chlorine should be accepted, as it is NaCl (Sodium Chloride), with an equal molar ratio of 1:1.

I guessed sulfur for carbon!

I suspect not. Generally speaking, they usually spell it like the rest of the world outside the US: aluminium. (Except for US scientists, who tend to spell it aluminium also.)

IUPAC adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990. The rest of the world are just waiting for the US (and Canada) to catch up.

Most of the world spells it as aluminium.

Better for your health :)

Colonel Mustard wants a word with you in the ballroom.

missed opportunity to use a more creative picture for silicon...

You should put an image of Silicon Valley for the Silicon ;-)

I kept putting in "Plutonium" for the banana picture but then I realized that only happens in Back to the Future 2.

That's really the best clue you could find for aluminium?

A grey globule?

For the pipes, could copper also be accepted, as copper is probably a more common material for pipes now?

got all instantly without a second of thought, ok lead cost me half a second, was huh owyea... but the uranium one, looked at it for allmost a minute, thought it was about the clouds/smoke or something. Took me a long while to realize it is supposed to be a powerplant and the element itself isnt seen in the picture.

Fun quiz! Would you be so kind to add the standard note that elements must correspond to the yellow box? I use a blue blocker and I didn't know it was there until I was halfway through and couldn't understand why my answers weren't working :P

Missed lead, tungsten, and chromium.

Assuming that is a nuclear plant, because of Uranium, I think you should accept Zirconium. Correct me if I'm wrong

Apperently, I made the same quiz but I didn't know so that is the only reason I got them all

I guessed einsteinium for the last one, LOL.

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