ELEMENTAL CODE

NAME:______________________



Each of the following list of elements is actually a code for a person's name. Can you decipher (figure out) this code and name the people on the list?? Can you find your name on the list???



It's easy!! All you have to do is write the symbols for the elements in the list and put them together to name the person. You can find the symbols for any element(s) you do not know or cannot remember on your periodic tables or the periodic table in the back of your text.



List of elements Chemical Symbols Person's Name
sulfur, hahnium, yttrium, neon
cobalt, rhenium, yttrium
sulfiir, tellurium, phosphorus, hydrogen
nickel, carbon, potassium
boron, oxygen, boron
calcium, thorium, yttrium
beryllium, thorium
thorium, radium, sulfur, hydrogen, erbium
phosphorus, gold, lithium, neon
potassium, americium - potassium, indium
aluminum, phosphorus, holmium, nitrogen, selenium
yttrium, vanadium, oxygen, nitrogen, neon
beryllium, actinium, hydrogen
fluorine, aluminum, cobalt, nitrogen, erbium
ruthenium, boron, yttrium
lutetium, carbon, iodine, erbium
calcium, thorium, argon, iodine, neon
boron, osmium, sulfur
aluminum, zinc, erbium


Name the fruits:



barium, sodium, sodium __________________________



oxygen, radium, nitrogen, germanium __________________________



NAME THAT ELEMENT:



When arranged in the order given the symbols of these elements spell out the name of another element. Determine the name of the unknown element and write its chemical symbol.



list of elements symbols name of unknown element symbol of unknown
titanium, nitrogen
carbon, argon, boron, oxygen, nitrogen
cobalt, phosphorus, phosphorus, erbium
neon, oxygen, nitrogen
sulfur, iodine, lithium cobalt, nitrogen
phosphorus, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, phosphorus, hydrogen, oxygen,

ruthenium, sulfur

iridium, oxygen, nitrogen
argon, selenium, nickel, carbon
xenon, , nitrogen, oxygen, nitrogen
boron, iodine, samarium, uranium, thorium
arsenic, tantalum, titanium, neon



Can you decipher this secret message??????



Helium yttrium nickel carbon potassium phosphorus arsenic sulfur thorium astatine





phosphorus iodine technetium hydrogen erbium oxygen fluorine beryllium erbium