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The Gaming Table of the Elements
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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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Name: silicon
Symbol: Si
Atomic number: 14
Atomic weight: 28.0855
Silicon is present in the sun and stars and is a principal component of a class of meteorites known as aerolites. Silicon makes up 25.7% of the earth's crust by weight, and is the second most abundant element, exceeded only by oxygen. It is found largely as silicon oxides such as sand (silica), quartz, rock crystal, amethyst, agate, flint, jasper and opal. Silicon is found also in minerals such as asbestos, feldspar, clay and mica.
Silicon is important in plant and animal life. Diatoms in both fresh and salt water extract silica from the water to use as a component of their cell walls. Silicon is an important ingredient in steel. Silicon carbide is one of the most important abrasives. Workers in environments where silicaceous dust is breathed may develop a serious lung disease known as silicosis.
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Name: californium
Symbol: Cf
Atomic number: 98
Atomic weight: [ 251 ]
Californium is a radioactive rare earth metal named after the state of California and the University of California (USA). Californium-252 is a strong neutron emitter and one microgram emits 170 million neutrons per minute, making it a biological hazard.
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Board Game: Beer!
[Average Rating:2.43 Unranked]
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Name: barium
Symbol: Ba
Atomic number: 56
Atomic weight: 137.327 (7)
Barium is a metallic element, soft, and when pure is silvery white like lead. The metal oxidises very easily and it reacts with water or alcohol. Barium is one of the alkaline-earth metals. Small amounts of barium compounds are used in paints and glasses.
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Board Game: Peace
[Average Rating:4.25 Unranked]
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Name: nobelium
Symbol: No
Atomic number: 102
Atomic weight: [ 259 ]
Nobelium is a radioactive "rare earth metal" named after Alfred Nobel who discovered dynamite.
(ps: did you look at this game? ugh...)
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Name: Germanium
Symbol: Ge
Atomic Number: 32
Atomic Weight: 72.64
The element is a gray-white metalloid, and in its pure state is crystalline and brittle, retaining its lustre in air at room temperature. It is a very important semiconductor material. Zone-refining techniques have led to production of crystalline germanium for semiconductor use with an impurity of only one part in 10-10.
Certain germanium compounds have a low mammalian toxicity, but a clear activity against certain bacteria, which makes them of interest as chemotherapeutic agents.
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Name: Europium
Symbol: Eu
Atomic Number: 63
Atomic Weight: 151.964
Europium ignites in air at about 150 to 180°C. Europium is about as hard as lead and is quite ductile. It is the most reactive of the rare earth metals, quickly oxidising in air. It resembles calcium in its reaction with water. It is used in television screens to produce a red colour.
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Name: surprise
Symbol: Sz
Atomic number: off the charts
Atomic weight: [ too X-treme to measure ]
The element of surprise is a theoretical particle. Though it is thought to be quite common it has never been accurately measured or studied in any proper depth and thusly is unquantifiable. It is thought to be highly reactive but extremely short lived.
No team of scientists has (as of this writing) sucsessfuly reproduced the element of surprise in a laboratory setting.
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Krypton
Kr
Atomic number: 36
Atomic weight: 83.798 g m
And as we all know it makes certain superheroes lose their incredible strength only for it to be replaced with a migraine.
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Name: Chrome
Symbol: Cr
Atomic Number: 24
Atomic Weight: 51.9961
Chromium is steel-gray, lustrous, hard, metallic, and takes a high polish. Its compounds are toxic. It is found as chromite ore. Siberian red lead (crocoite, PrCrO4) is a chromium ore prized as a red pigment for oil paints.
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Jose Francisco Pons Ripoll
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Sulphur (or sulfur)
Name: sulphur
Symbol: S
Atomic number: 16
Atomic weight: 32.065
Group number: 16
Group name: Chalcogen
Period number: 3
Block: p-block
Sulphur is a pale yellow, odourless, brittle solid, which is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulphide. Sulphur is essential to life. It is a minor constituent of fats, body fluids, and skeletal minerals.
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Unununium
Well, now it's called Roentgenium. A chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Rg and atomic number 111 making it one of the super-heavy atoms. It is a synthetic element whose longest-lived isotope has a mass of 280 and a half-life of 3.6 seconds. Due to its presence in Group 11 it is a transition metal and so probably would appear as a heavy, solid, shiny metal. Due to the inert pair effect, it should be colored like gold.
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Jose Francisco Pons Ripoll
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Name: mercury
Symbol: Hg
Atomic number: 80
Atomic weight: 200.59
Mercury is the only common metal liquid at ordinary temperatures. Mercury is sometimes called quicksilver. It rarely occurs free in nature and is found mainly in cinnabar ore (HgS) in Spain and Italy. It is a heavy, silvery-white liquid metal. It is a rather poor conductor of heat as compared with other metals but is a fair conductor of electricity. It alloys easily with many metals, such as gold, silver, and tin. These alloys are called amalgams. Its ease in amalgamating with gold is made use of in the recovery of gold from its ores.
The most important salts are mercuric chloride HgC12 (corrosive sublimate - a violent poison), mercurous chloride Hg2Cl2 (calomel, occasionally still used in medicine), mercury fulminate (Hg(ONC)2, a detonator used in explosives), and mercuric sulphide (HgS, vermillion, a high-grade paint pigment).
Organic mercury compounds are important - and dangerous. Methyl mercury is a lethal pollutant found in rivers and lakes. The main source of pollution is industrial wastes settling to the river and lake bottoms.
As mercury is a very volatile element, dangerous levels are readily attained in air. Mercury vapour should not exceed 0.1 mg m-3 in air. Air saturated with the vapour at 20°C contains mercury in a concentration far greater than that limit. The danger increases at higher temperatures. It is therefore important that mercury be handled with care. Containers of mercury should be securely covered and spillage should be avoided. Mercury should only be handled under in a well-ventilated area. If you are in possession of any mercury you are advised to contact a properly qualified chemist or public health laboratory for its safe disposal.
Small amounts of mercury spillage can be cleaned up by addition of sulphur powder. The resulting mixture should be disposed of carefully.
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Jose Francisco Pons Ripoll
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Name: francium
Symbol: Fr
Atomic number: 87
Atomic weight: [ 223 ]
Group number: 1
Group name: Alkali metal
Period number: 7
Francium occurs as a result of a disintegration of actinium. Francium is found in uranium minerals, and can be made artificially by bombarding thorium with protons. It is the most unstable of the first 101 elements. The longest lived isotope, 223Fr, a daughter of 227Ac, has a half-life of 22 minutes. This is the only isotope of francium occurring in nature, but at most there is only 20-30 g of the element present in the earth's crust at any one time. No weighable quantity of the element has been prepared or isolated. There are about 20 known isotopes.
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Board Game: Ys
[Average Rating:7.16 Overall Rank:214]
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Name: yttrium; ytterbium
Symbol: Y; Yb
Atomic number: 39; 70
Atomic weight: 88.90585 (2); 173.04 (3) g
Both yttrium and ytterbium are rare-earth metals named after the town of Yttery in Sweden, where they were first discovered. This same town also gave its name to Erbium and Terbium.
Yttrium has a silvery luster and can ignite in air. It can be found in moon rocks, and is used to create the red "phosphors" in television screens. It's also used as a component in high temperature semiconductors, as an element in magnesium alloys, and in certain Bosch spark plugs.
Ytterbium is a soft, silvery metal easily dissolved by acids. It reacts with water, albeit slowly.
Sources: www.WebElements.com, www.theodoregray.com
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Board Game: Ra
[Average Rating:7.76 Overall Rank:25]
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Radium.
Atomic Number: 88
Atomic Weight: 226.0254
Element Classification: Alkaline-earth Metal
Discovered By: Pierre and Marie Curie-Sklodowska
Discovery Date: 1898 (France/Poland)
Name Origin: Latin: radius (ray)
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Board Game: UR
[Average Rating:5.36 Overall Rank:4623]
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Name: Sumerium
Atomic No. 62
Part of the Lanthanoid series, named after Sumeria, which included the ancient city of Ur.
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Name: Uranium
Symbol: U
Atomic No.: 92
Atomic Wt.: 238
The element that made Nuclear War, atomic energy, etc., possible. All the fun started in the 1930's when they learned how to separate the fissionable Uranium 235 from the more common Uranium 238 isotope. U-235 was the base for one of the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 (the other one used Plutonium - I can't remember which one was which).
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Name: Lithium
Symbol: Li
Atomic No.: 3
Atomic Wt.: 6.941
Lithium is an alkali metal and will react with water (like sodium). In addition to its use to make batteries, lithium is also often prescribed to treat ... depression.
Don't look so sad.
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Name: Copper
Symbol: Cu
Atomic No.: 29
Atomic Wt.: 63.546
Metal used for its conductivity. Also used for plumbing (maybe we should attach Waterworks as well - would work for lead too).
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Name: Nickel
Symbol: Ni
Atomic No.: 28
Atomic Wt.: 58.69
Silvery white metal used in many allows and for plating. Used often in coins (the U.S. nickel is about 25% nickel).
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Name: Arsenic
Symbol: As
Atomic No.: 33
Atomic Wt.: 74.92
How could we forget the traditional murder mystery poison? Arsenic is actually classed as a metal. And although your body needs a trace of it, larger doses kill. It has often been used in wine, as in the classic play "Arsenic & Old Lace" - a great show.
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Name: Aluminum
Symbol: Al
Atomic No.: 13
Atomic Wt.: 26.98
Silver white non-magnetic metal - tons of uses from light-weight structural metal to foil. Very abundant and also used in many alloys.
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Board Game: Argonians-1
[Average Rating:6.50 Unranked]
[Average Rating:6.50 Unranked]
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Name: Argon
Symbol: Ar
Atomic No.: 18
Atomic Wt.: 39.948
One of the Noble gases, there are only traces of it in the atmosphere. It is often used in processing air-sensitive materials since it's heavier than nitrogen & oxygen and will generally sink.
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Name: Bismuth
Symbol: Bi
Atomic No.: 83
Atomic Wt.: 208.98
Bismuth is a pinkish metal, brittle, and has the lowest thermal conductivity of any metal except mercury.
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Name: Boron
Symbol: B
Atomic number: 5
Atomic weight: 10.811
Boron has properties which are borderline between metals and non-metals. It is a semiconductor rather than a metallic conductor.
It's commonly found in nature in borax (you can drive through piles of it in Death Valley) which is used to make soap.
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Posted Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:48 pm
also...what a DOG 'does' with a "bone"! 
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/periodictable.html
It was going through my head as I was searching.
The metal that falls up, Boris dah-link.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1611