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Name the element from its symbol (all 118)
A chemical symbol such as Fe is shown. Type the element's name. You get one try at each. A right answer moves on by itself, Enter locks in a guess, and Skip or typing ? passes.
About this quiz
All 118 chemical symbols, one at a time. The newest elements have symbols close to their names, so the hard ones are the old metals with Latin symbols and the many symbols that share a first letter.
Capital letters, accents and spaces are ignored when your answers are checked. You earn a bronze, silver or gold medal depending on how many you get right, and your best score is saved in this browser. There is no account to create.
Notes on the answers, and a fact contains spoilers
Eleven symbols come from Latin or other older names, among them K for potassium, Sn for tin, Sb for antimony and Hg for mercury. J and Q are the only letters of the alphabet that appear in no element symbol.
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