ID Elements #1

1.Hennig Brand was the first person recorded to have discovered a new element. Brand was a bankrupt German merchant who was trying to discover the Philosopher’s Stone — a mythical object that was supposed to turn inexpensive base metals into gold. He experimented with distilling human urine until in 1649, he finally obtained X.He kept his discovery secret, until 1680 when Robert Boyle rediscovered it and it became public.

2.Two elements of the Periodic Table are named after a University as they were discovered there. Identify the elements and the University. Also, both the elements are there in the name of the University.

3.In medieval Germany, a red mineral was found in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains) which resembled copper ore. However, when miners were unable to extract any copper from it they blamed a mischievous sprite of German mythology, X for besetting the copper. They called this ore KupferX from the German Kupfer for copper. ID element X\

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The Honda RA302 was a Formula One racing car produced by Honda Racing, and introduced by Honda Racing France during the 1968 Formula One season. The car was built based on the order by Soichiro Honda to develop an air-cooled Formula One engine.Thus, the car was forcibly entered in the Formula One race alongside the water-cooled RA301, had developed by existing Honda team and British Lola Cars. It would only appear in one race, in the 1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts, driven by Jo Schlesser. Schlesser was chosen to drive it, because normal Honda driver and 1964 world champion John Surtees refused to drive the RA302 as he deemed it to be unsafe and labelled it as a “potential deathtrap”. This was proven on lap 3 of the Grand Prix, as Schlesser crashed at the Virage des Six Fréres section of the circuit, with the car coming to rest sideways against a bank. Survival was impossible for the driver as the body of the car was made of X. ID X

5.An element naming controversy erupted and as a result IUPAC adopted unnilhexium (Unh) as a temporary, systematic element name. In 1994 a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 106 be named rutherfordium and adopted a rule that no element can be named after a living person.This ruling was fiercely objected to by the American Chemical Society. Critics pointed out that a precedent had been set in the naming of einsteinium during Albert Einstein’s life and a survey indicated that chemists were not concerned with the fact that X was still alive. In 1997, as part of a compromise involving elements 104 to 108, the name Y for element 106 was recognized internationally.
ID X and Y

6. In 1908, Japanese chemist Masataka Ogawa announced that he discovered the 43rd element and named it nipponium after Japan (which is Nippon in Japanese). However, later analysis indicated the presence of rhenium (element 75), not element 43. However, its ‘remains’ can be found in the modern Periodic Table. What am I talking about?

7. X and Y are two members of a group, which did not enjoy a place in the periodic table until after employing the convention of naming elements as uni…., etc. Y had made its mark. What are X and Y?

HINT: X and Y are not elements

8. A number of chemists devoted a major portion of their lives in finding this element but could not. But where nature stops, man starts. The present position is held by the first man made element. Also this element number just missed out on being the answer to everything.

9.In 1960, an international agreement defined the meter in terms of wavelength of light emitted by a _____ isotope.

10. Its name is derived from the character X, father of Niobe in Greek mythology, who was punished after death by being condemned to stand knee-deep in water with perfect fruit growing above his head, both of which eternally ________ him – if he bent to drink the water, it drained below the level he could reach, and if he reached for the fruit, the branches moved out of his grasp. Ekeberg wrote “This metal I call X … partly in allusion to its incapacity, when immersed in acid, to absorb any and be saturated.” This element was found along with Colombium, which is now known as Niobium.

Its name is derived from the character Tantalus, father of Niobe in Greek mythology, who was punished after death by being condemned to stand knee-deep in water with perfect fruit growing above his head, both of which eternally tantalized him – if he bent to drink the water, it drained below the level he could reach, and if he reached for the fruit, the branches moved out of his grasp.^[12] Ekeberg wrote “This metal I call tantalum … partly in allusion to its incapacity, when immersed in acid, to absorb any and be saturated.”^[13]