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The Gaming Table of the Elements
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King of the Dead
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Portland
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It's back to science class girls and boys! This list will attempt (over time and with your help) to catalog references to every element currently on the periodic table (and perhaps some that are not!). The idea came from a groovy site called "The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements" which can be found here: http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/For reference to the actual periodic table see the great WebElements™ periodic table which can be found here: http://www.webelements.com/For reference to a not so actual table please see this neat little page on Wikipedia called Fictional elements, isotopes and atomic particles which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_elementNow, let's hit the books... (ps: these are not in order. it's much too hard to come up with some of them so i wanted to get some easy ones right away. we'll fill in the gaps together later, neh?)
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Posted Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:42 pm
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King of the Dead
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Name: hydrogen
Symbol: H
Atomic number: 1
Atomic weight: 1.00794 (7) g m r
Hydrogen is the lightest element. It is by far the most abundant element in the universe and makes up about about 90% of the universe by weight. Hydrogen as water (H2O) is absolutely essential to life and it is present in all organic compounds. Hydrogen gas was used in lighter-than-air balloons for transport but is far too dangerous because of the fire risk (Hindenburg).
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King of the Dead
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Name: helium
Symbol: He
Atomic number: 2
Atomic weight: 4.002602 (2) g r
Helium is one of the so-called noble gases. Helium gas is unreactive, colourless, and odourless. Helium is available in pressurised tanks.
Elemental helium is a colourless odourless monoatomic gas. Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. a particles are doubly ionised helium atoms, He2+.
Helium is used in lighter than air balloons and while heavier than hydrogen, is far safer since helium does not burn. Speaking after breathing an atmosphere rich in helium results in a squeaky voice (don't try it!).
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Board Game: Diamant
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Name: carbon
Symbol: C
Atomic number: 6
Atomic weight: 12.0107 (8) g r
Carbon is a Group 14 element. Carbon is distributed very widely in nature. It is found in abundance in the sun, stars, comets, and atmospheres of most planets. The atmosphere of Mars contains 96 % CO2.
Carbon is found free in nature in three allotropic forms: amorphous, graphite, and diamond. Graphite is one of the softest known materials while diamond is one of the hardest. Carbon, as microscopic diamonds, is found in some meteorites. Natural diamonds are found in ancient volcanic "pipes" such as found in South Africa. Diamonds are also recovered from the ocean floor off the Cape of Good Hope.
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Board Game: Gold!
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Name: gold
Symbol: Au
Atomic number: 79
Atomic weight: 196.96655 (2)
Gold is usually alloyed in jewellery to give it more strength, and the term carat describes the amount of gold present (24 carats is pure gold). It is estimated that all the gold in the world, so far refined, could be placed in a single cube 60 ft. on a side. It is metallic, with a yellow colour when in a mass, but when finely divided it may be black, ruby, or purple.
It is the most malleable and ductile metal; 1 ounce (28 g) of gold can be beaten out to 300 square feet. It is a good conductor of heat and electricity, and is unaffected by air and most reagents.
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King of the Dead
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Name: silver
Symbol: Ag
Atomic number: 47
Atomic weight: 107.8682 (2) g
Silver is somewhat rare and expensive, although not as expensive as gold. Slag dumps in Asia Minor and on islands in the Aegean Sea indicate that man learned to separate silver from lead as early as 3000 B.C. Pure silver has a brilliant white metallic lustre. It is a little harder than gold and is very ductile and malleable. Pure silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of all metals, and possesses the lowest contact resistance. Silver iodide, AgI, is (or was?) used for causing clouds to produce rain.
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King of the Dead
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Name: palladium
Symbol: Pd
Atomic number: 46
Atomic weight: 106.42 (1) g
Palladium is a steel-white metal, does not tarnish in air, and is the least dense and lowest melting of the platinum group metals. When annealed, it is soft and ductile. Cold working increases its strength and hardness. It is used in some watch springs.
At room temperatures the metal has the unusual property of absorbing up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen. Hydrogen readily diffuses through heated palladium and this provides a means of purifying the gas.
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King of the Dead
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Portland
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Name: iron
Symbol: Fe
Atomic number: 26
Atomic weight: 55.845 (2)
Iron is a relatively abundant element in the universe. It is found in the sun and many types of stars in considerable quantity. Iron nuclei are very stable. Iron is a vital constituent of plant and animal life, and is the key component of haemoglobin.
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King of the Dead
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Name: sodium
Symbol: Na
Atomic number: 11
Atomic weight: 22.989770 (2)
Soap is generally a sodium salt of fatty acids. The importance of common salt to animal nutrition has been recognized since prehistoric times. The most common compound is sodium chloride, (table salt).
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Board Game: Airhead
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King of the Dead
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Name: oxygen
Symbol: O
Atomic number: 8
Atomic weight: 15.9994 (3) g r
Oxygen is a Group 16 element. While about one fifth of the atmosphere is oxygen gas, the atmosphere of Mars contains only about 0.15% oxygen. Oxygen is the third most abundant element found in the sun, and it plays a part in the carbon-nitrogen cycle, one process responsible for stellar energy production. Oxygen in excited states is responsible for the bright red and yellow-green colours of the aurora. About two thirds of the human body, and nine tenths of water, is oxygen.
Oxygen is very reactive and oxides of most elements are known. It is essential for respiration of all plants and animals and for most types of combustion.
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King of the Dead
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Portland
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Name: plutonium
Symbol: Pu
Atomic number: 94
Atomic weight: [ 244 ]
Plutonium was the second transuranium element of the actinide series to be discovered. By far of greatest importance is the isotope 239Pu, which has a half-life of more than 20000 years. One kilogram is equivalent to about 22 million kilowatt hours of heat energy. The complete detonation of a kilogram of plutonium produces an explosion equal to about 20000 tons of chemical explosive. The various nuclear applications of plutonium are well known. The isotope 233Pu was used in the American Apollo lunar missions to power seismic and other equipment on the lunar surface. Plutonium contamination is an emotive environmental problem.
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Jim Cote
United States
Maine
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Name: americium
Symbol: Am
Atomic number: 95
Atomic weight: 243
The lustre of freshly prepared americium metal is whiter and more silvery than plutonium or neptunium prepared in the same manner. Americium is a component of the smoke detector above.
Americium appears to be more malleable than uranium or neptunium and americium tarnishes slowly in dry air at room temperature. Americium is a radioactive rare earth metal which must be handled with care to avoid contact, since it is a heavy a and g emitter. It is named after America. The a activity of 241Am is about three times that of radium. Americium is available to qualified users in the UK and in the USA.
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Maarten D. de Jong
Netherlands
Zaandam
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Name: beryllium
Symbol: Be
Atomic number: 4
Atomic weight: 9.0
Beryllium is the first of the group II-elements. Most compounds containing Be are exceedingly toxic and cause severe respiratory problems upon inhalation; the skin is also affected badly when it comes into contact with solutions of Be-ions. Early chemists identified it by its sweet taste---a disgusting practice now strictly forbidden. Because it has so low an atomic number, its 'stopping power' for energetic radiation is very low. It is therefore used in windows for X-ray equipment, where one wishes to have as little X-rays go to waste within the encasing where they are generated. A more sinister use is to employ its rather low reactivity towards neutrons to keep those contained---for example within a plutionium-based nuclear weapon. A Pu-bomb with a Be-shield requires substantially less Pu to detonate than in the unshielded case. Finally, because the isotopes Be-7 and Be-8 are highly unstable, the process known as nucleosynthesis---forming of atomic nuclei---during the Big Bang, stopped at its lighter brother lithium. All other elements in the known universe are the product of stellar fusion. We humans are made of recycled stardust because the properties of beryllium.
Most people are blissfully unaware of all these properties, however. They will, on the other hand, recognise and marvel at the beauty of clear and deeply green emeralds, which contain the element Be.
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Richard Irving
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Salinas
California
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Name: nitrogen
Symbol: N
Atomic number: 7
Atomic weight: 14.0076
Nitrogen is the primary gas in Earth's atmosphere, making 78% by volume at sea level.
Nitrogen was discovered by chemist and physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772. He removed oxygen and carbon dioxide from air and showed that the residual gas would not support combustion or living organisms. At the same time there were other noted scientists working on the problem of nitrogen. These included Scheele, Cavendish, Priestley, and others. They called it "burnt" or "dephlogisticated air," which meant air without oxygen.
Nitrogen is found in all living systems as part of the makeup of biological compounds.
The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier mistakenly named nitrogen azote, meaning without life. However, nitrogen compounds are found in foods, organic materials, fertilizers, poisons, and explosives. Nitrogen, as a gas is colorless, odorless, and generally considered an inert element.
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Kent Reuber
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San Mateo
California
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Platinum. Shiny and expensive.
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Richard Irving
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Salinas
California
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Name: neon
Symbol: Ne
Atomic number: 10
Atomic weight: 20.179
Discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Neon is a rare gaseous element present in the atmosphere to the extent of 1 part in 65,000 of air. It is obtained by liquefaction of air and separated from the other gases by fractional distillation.
Neon is a very inert element, however, it has been reported to form a compound with fluorine. It is still questionable if true compounds of neon exist, but evidence is mounting in favor of their existence.
In a vacuum discharge tube, neon glows reddish orange.
Although neon advertising signs account for the bulk of its use, neon also functions in high-voltage indicators, lightning arrestors, wave meter tubes, and TV tubes. Neon and helium are used in making gas lasers. Liquid neon is now commercially available and is finding important application as an economical cryogenic refrigerant.
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anoni mouse
United States
San Jose
California
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Name: Einsteinium
Symbol: Es
Atomic number: 99
Atomic weight: 252
Einsteinium, the seventh transuranic element of the actinide series to be discovered, ws identified by Ghiorso and co-workers at Berkeley in December 1952 in debris from the first large thermonuclear explosion, which took place in the Pacific in November, 1952.
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anoni mouse
United States
San Jose
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Name: Lawrencium
Symbol: Lr
Atomic number: 103
Atomic weight: 262
Standard state: presumably a solid at 298 K
Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance
Lawrencium is a synthetic "rare earth metal" which does not occur in the environment.
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Chris Reuber
United States
Unspecified
Missouri
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THE WARRIOR PRINCESS OF ELEMENTS
Name: Xenon
Symbol: Xe
Atomic number: 54
Atomic weight: 131.293
Xenon (Greek meaning "stranger") was discovered in England by William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898. This gas is used in dermatology and in light-emitting devices, emitting a blue glow when it is excited by electrical discharge. It's a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, occurring in one part per twenty million.
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King of the Dead
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Name: tungsten
Symbol: W
Atomic number: 74
Atomic weight: 183.84 (1)
Pure tungsten is a steel-gray to tin-white metal. Tungsten has the highest melting point and lowest vapour pressure of all metals, and at temperatures over 1650°C has the highest tensile strength. The metal oxidises in air and must be protected at elevated temperatures. It has excellent corrosion resistance and is attacked only slightly by most mineral acids.
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King of the Dead
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Name: bohrium
Symbol: Bh
Atomic number: 107
Atomic weight: [ 264 ]
Bohrium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. The German discoverers at GSI proposed the name Nielsbohrium (symbol Ns) after Niels Bohr. IUPAC are happy to name an element after Bohr but suggest bohrium (Bh) on the grounds that the first name of a person does not appear in the names of any other element named after a person. This seems to have been accepted by all concerned.
---- Interesting... a German discovered element named after a German scientist whoes matching game is German and the overall theme is BORING. (actually i'm quite fond of Niels Bohr and his works.. i just thought it might be funny... sorry...)
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King of the Dead
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Name: zirconium
Symbol: Zr
Atomic number: 40
Atomic weight: 91.224 (2)
Zirconium is a greyish-white lustrous metal. The finely divided metal can ignite spontaneously in air, especially at elevated temperatures. The solid metal is much more difficult to ignite. The inherent toxicity of zirconium compounds is low.
Zirconium is found in S-type stars, and has been identified in the sun and meteorites. Analyses of lunar rock samples show a surprisingly high zirconium oxide content as compared with terrestrial rocks. Some forms of zircon (ZrSiO4) have excellent gemstone qualities.
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Name: potassium
Symbol: K
Atomic number: 19
Atomic weight: 39.0983 (1)
This metal is the seventh most abundant and makes up about 1.5 % by weight of the earth's crust. Potassium is an essential constituent for plant growth and it is found in most soils. It is also a vital element in the human diet.
Potassium is never found free in nature, but is obtained by electrolysis of the chloride or hydroxide. It is one of the most reactive and electropositive of metals and, apart from lithium, it is the least dense known metal. It is soft and easily cut with a knife. It is silvery in appearance immediately after a fresh surface is exposed.
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Board Game: Clue
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Name: lead
Symbol: Pb
Atomic number: 82
Atomic weight: 207.2 (1) g m
Lead is a bluish-white lustrous metal. It is very soft, highly malleable, ductile, and a relatively poor conductor of electricity. It is very resistant to corrosion but tarnishes upon exposure to air. Lead pipes bearing the insignia of Roman emperors, used as drains from the baths, are still in service. Alloys include pewter and solder. Tetraethyl lead (PbEt4) is still used in some grades of petrol (gasoline) but is being phased out on environmental grounds.
Lead isotopes are the end products of each of the three series of naturally occurring radioactive elements.
(ps: check out the pic on the webelements.com page for lead!)
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Name: rutherfordium
Symbol: Rf
Atomic number: 104
Atomic weight: [ 261 ]
Standard state: presumably a solid at 298 K
Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance
Classification: Metallic
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Rutherfordium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. It has no uses.
Isolation of an observable quantity of rutherfordium has never been achieved.
Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)
New Zealander-English physicist who was born in Nelson, New Zealand, attended school in Nelson and Marlborough, and finished his tertiary education in Canterbury, New Zealand before traveling to England. Rutherford is best known for devising the names alpha, beta, and gamma rays to classify various forms of "rays" which were poorly understood at his time (alpha and beta rays are particle beams, while gamma rays are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation ).
Rutherford deflected alpha rays with both electric and magnetic fields in 1903. He also observed that the intensity of radioactivity fell off with time, and named the halving time the "half-life. " In 1906, his students Geiger and Marsden conducted the classic gold foil alpha particle scattering experiment which showed large deflections for a small fraction of incident particles. This led Rutherford to propose that the atom was "nuclear." For his discoveries, Rutherford was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He much resented that the prize was in chemistry rather than physics, and his acceptance speech made a remark to the effect that he had seen many transformations in his studies, but never one more rapid than his own from physicist to chemist.
Rutherford suggested that the simplest possible rays must be those obtained by hydrogen and that these must be the fundamental positively charged particle, which he dubbed the proton in 1914. In 1917, he passed alpha particles through a gas of nitrogen and occasionally observed scintillation of hydrogen impacting on his screen. He concluded that the alpha particles were knocking protons out of the nitrogen atoms, and thus that he had made the first observation of nuclear reactions.
Rutherford's image appears on New Zealand's $100 note, that country's largest denomination of paper currency. One particularly memorable quote attributed to Rutherford is "All science is either physics or stamp collecting" (Birks 1963).
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Johan Pettersson
Sweden
Smygehamn
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Name: Calcium
Symbol: Ca
Atomic number: 20
Atomic weight: 40.078
Calcium is a metallic element, fifth in abundance in the earth's crust, of which it forms more than 3%. It is an essential constituent of leaves, bones, teeth, and shells.
Calcium does not occur free in nature. Calcium is found mostly as limestone, gypsum and fluorite. Stalagmites and stalactites contain calcium carbonate.
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Posted Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:24 pm
oh, those 'wacky', ÜBER-düber~'attention-whoring', "Germans" and their "flights of fancy"! 
damm 2nd-'class' "elements"! "they tuque urr JURBS!" 
Plymouth
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Mountain View
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http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/periodictable.html
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It was going through my head as I was searching.
Orrstown
Pennsylvania
The metal that falls up, Boris dah-link.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1611