Question 8: How are elements on the periodic table ordered from left to right?
A: Atomic weight
B: How common they are
C: Order of discovery
D: Alphabetically by their names in Greek
E: None of the above - they are ordered by atomic NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regards,
Cory
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Very good. The quiz people give A: Atomic Weight as correct, but at Eng-Tips we know that a few neutrons more or less don't affect properties too much.
Cobalt & Nickel would switch places if ordered by at. wt. instead of at. no.; a few radioactive elements would also.
CoryPad
Well done, indeed. I had the same problem with #10, and with #1. Can't say that I am much of a trivia buff, however. One of my associates has a real knack for retaining this type of information. What works for me is to know where to look for specific information.
Here's a good link I could find for that song. Which I first heard sometime in the early '80's on the Dr. Demento radio show, and again as a freshman in college.
Actually, that's the only question I can answer off the top of my head. The song was done to one of G&S' "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" from Pirates of Penzance:
