Periodic Party: A Chemistry Challenge

Ten questions on elements, reactions, famous chemists and the chemistry hiding in your kitchen. Mix in your best guesses and see how you react!

Questions

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1. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
2. Which element has the atomic number 1?
3. What is the everyday name for sodium chloride?
4. Diamond and graphite are made of different chemical elements.
5. Which chemist is best known for creating the periodic table of the elements in 1869?
6. Which of these elements are noble gases? Select THREE.
7. Who was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
8. Put these elements in order of atomic number, lowest first.
9. Roughly what percentage of the air in Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen?
10. Which element has the chemical symbol W?