Word play using the names of the elements

Francis, Darryl

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THE PERIODIC TABLE’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY  Darryl Francis Brampton, Cumbria, England darryl.francis@yahoo.co.uk  As most readers probably know, the periodic table, or periodic table of elements, is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements, arranged by atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, whose structure shows periodic trends. The seven rows of the table, called periods, generally have metals on the left and non-metals on the right. The columns, called groups, contain elements with similar chemical behaviours. Six groups have accepted names as well as assigned numbers: for example, group 17 elements are the halogens; and group 18 are the noble gases. The organization of the periodic table can be used to derive relationships between the various element properties, and also to predict chemical properties and behaviours of undiscovered or newly synthesized elements. Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published the first recognizable periodic table in 1869 (150 years ago this year), developed mainly to illustrate periodic trends of the then-known elements. He also predicted some properties of unidentified elements that were expected to fill gaps within the table. Most of his forecasts proved to be correct. (Most of this paragraph is taken from Wikipedia.) However, during this 150th anniversary, I’ve been seeking logological relationships between the elements, and can report that every chemical element has some form of relationship with at least one other chemical element. My researches are shown below, but readers are encouraged to find additional relationships.  ACTINIUM It contains TIN ACTINIUM Spelled out in full in PROTACTINIUM ALUMINUM It contains 2 occurrences of UM; the only other element with 2 occurrences of UM is PLUMBUM, the old name for LEAD ALUMINUM Its last 3 letters are the same as the last 3 letters of LANTHANUM, MOLYBDENUM and PLATINUM ALUMINUM The first 4 letters are the same as the last 4 letters of TANTALUM AMERICIUM All its letters occur in LAWRENCIUM AMERICIUM It contains the letters of CERIUM ANTIMONY It contains the letters of TIN ANTIMONY Its alternative name is STIBIUM, which is a substitute-letter transposal of BISMUTH ARGON A substitute-letter transposal of RADON ARSENIC The last 3 letters are the first 3 letters of NICKEL ASTATINE It contains TIN BARIUM A substitute-letter transposal of ERBIUM and RADIUM BARIUM The letters can be found in SEABORGIUM BERKELIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as HELIUM and NOBELIUM BERYLLIUM The 2 L's can be swapped for 2 T's, and then rearranged to get YTTERBIUM BISMUTH A double substitute-letter transposal of THULIUM BISMUTH A substitute-letter transposal of STIBIUM, an earlier name for ANTIMONY, which explains why ANTIMONY’s symbol is Sb BOHRIUM A substitute-letter transposal of RHODIUM and THORIUM BORON All the letters appear in CARBON BORON The last 3 letters are the same as the last 3 letters of IRON BROMINE It contains the letters of BORON BROMINE It contains the letters of IRON CADMIUM The first 2 letters and the last 3 letters are the same as CALCIUM and CALIFORNIUM CALCIUM The first 3 letters and the last 3 letters are same as CALIFORNIUM CALIFORNIUM It contains 6 of the 7 letters of SILICON CALIFORNIUM It contains the letters of FRANCIUM CALIFORNIUM It contains the letters of IRON CALIFORNIUM The first 2 letters and the last 3 letters are the same as CADMIUM CALIFORNIUM The first 3 letters and the last 3 letters are the same as CALCIUM CARBON Assigning the values A=1, B=2, etc, the sum total of CARBON's letters is 52, the same as the total for COBALT's letters CARBON It contains all the letters of BORON CERIUM A substitute-letter transposal of CESIUM CERIUM A substitute-letter transposal of CURIUM CERIUM All its letters occur in AMERICIUM CERIUM All its letters occur in LAWRENCIUM CERIUM The letters of MERCURY can be rearranged to spell the non-word CERRYUM, which is a homophone of CERIUM CESIUM A subsitute-letter transposal of CERIUM CHLORINE It contains the letters of IRON CHROMIUM It contains 6 of the 7 letters of HOLMIUM COBALT Assigning the values A=1, B=2, etc, the sum total of COBALT's letters is 52, the same as the total for CARBON's letters COPERNICIUM It contains the letters of IRON COPPER It is composed of the symbols of CARBON, OXYGEN, PHOSPHORUS, PHOSPHORUS and ERBIUM CURIUM A substitute-letter transposal of CERIUM CURIUM It has the same last 5 letters as TELLURIUM DARMSTADTIUM It contains the letters of RADIUM DUBNIUM Its earlier proposed name was HAHNIUM, only one letter different from  HAFNIUM DYSPROSIUM It contains the letters of SODIUM EINSTEINIUM It contains the letters of TIN ERBIUM A substitute-letter transposal of BARIUM ERBIUM It can be front-hooked to give TERBIUM ERBIUM Its letters appear in order in YTTERBIUM EUROPIUM All its letters appear in PRASEODYMIUM and PROMETHIUM FERMIUM All its letters appear in FLEROVIUM FLEROVIUM Beheading this name gives LEROVIUM, which is a once proposed name for NOBELIUM FLEROVIUM It contains 7 of the 8 letters in FLUORINE FLUORINE 7 of its 8 letters appear in FLEROVIUM FLUORINE It contains the letters of IRON FRANCIUM All its letters appear in CALIFORNIUM GADOLINIUM It contains the letters of GOLD GADOLINIUM It contains the letters of INDIUM GALLIUM It has the same last 6 letters as THALLIUM GALLIUM It rhymes with THALLIUM GERMANIUM A substitute-letter transposal of MAGNESIUM GOLD Its letters can be found in the first 5 letters of GADOLINIUM HAFNIUM This is a gammagram of HAHNIUM, an earlier name of DUBNIUM HASSIUM It rhymes with POTASSIUM HASSIUM It shares the last 6 letters with POTASSIUM HELIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as BERKELIUM and NOBELIUM HOLMIUM 6 of the 7 letters appear in CHROMIUM HOLMIUM A double substitute-letter transposal of THULIUM HYDROGEN It has the same first 4 letters as HYDRARGYRUM, the old name for MERCURY HYDROGEN It has the same last 5 letters as NITROGEN INDIUM All letters appear in GADOLINIUM INDIUM It has the same last 5 letters as SCANDIUM IODINE Its letters all appear in ANTIMONIDE, a compound of ANTIMONY IRIDIUM All the letters appear in RUBIDIUM IRIDIUM The last 5 letters are the same as the last 5 letters of RUBIDIUM IRON Its letters appear in BROMINE, CHLORINE, COPERNICIUM, FLUORINE, NITROGEN, PROTACTINIUM, STRONTIUM and ZIRCONIUM IRON Its letters appear in order in NITROGEN and ZIRCONIUM KRYPTON Its letters appear in the term ‘pony truck’ (a two-wheeled swivel truck used under the front end of a locomotive), where CU are the 2 additional letters - and Cu is the symbol for COPPER LANTHANUM Its last 3 letters are the same as the last 3 letters of ALUMINUM, MOLYBDENUM and PLATINUM LAWRENCIUM It contains all the letters of AMERICIUM LAWRENCIUM It contains the letters of CERIUM LEAD The old name is PLUMBUM, which contains 2 occurrences of UM; the only other element with 2 occurrences of UM is ALUMINUM LITHIUM A substitute-letter transposal of THULIUM LITHIUM It has the same last 5 letters as PROMETHIUM LIVERMORIUM The first 5 letters can be rearranged to give the last 5 letters of SILVER LUTETIUM It has the same last 5 letters as TECHNETIUM MAGNESIUM A substitute-letter transposal of GERMANIUM MAGNESIUM The first 6 letters are the only letters in MANGANESE MANGANESE All the letters appear in MAGNESIUM MEITNERIUM It contains letters of TIN MENDELEVIUM 9 of its 11 letters appear in SELENIUM MERCURY Its letters can be rearranged to spell CERRYUM, which is a homophone of CERIUM MERCURY Its old name was HYDRARGYRUM, which has the same first 4 letters as HYDROGEN MOLYBDENUM Its last 3 letters are the same as the last 3 letters of ALUMINUM, LANTHANUM and PLATINUM MOLYBDENUM The name appears in NEOMOLYBDENUM, an earlier proposed name for TECHNETIUM MOSCOVIUM It contains the letters of OSMIUM NEODYMIUM It begins with the same 3 letters as NEON NEODYMIUM The last 8 letters are the same as the last 8 letters of PRASEODYMIUM NEON All its letters appear in NITROGEN NEON All its letters appear in OGANESSON NEON All its letters appear in ROENTGENIUM NEON All its letters appear in XENON NEON It begins with the same 3 letters as NEODYMIUM NEPTUNIUM A double substitute-letter transposal of PLUTONIUM NEPTUNIUM It contains the letters of TIN NICKEL The first 3 letters are the last 3 letters of ARSENIC NIHONIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as PLUTONIUM, POLONIUM and ZIRCONIUM NIOBIUM All the letters appear in NOBELIUM NITROGEN All its letters can be found in ROENTGENIUM NITROGEN It contains letters of IRON in order NITROGEN It contains the letters of NEON NITROGEN It contains TIN in reverse order NITROGEN It has the same last 5 letters as HYDROGEN NOBELIUM A once proposed name for NOBELIUM was LEROVIUM, a beheadment of FLEROVIUM NOBELIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as BERKELIUM and HELIUM OGANESSON It contains the letters of NEON, in order OSMIUM A substitute-letter transposal of SODIUM OSMIUM Its letters all appear in MOSCOVIUM OXYGEN It contains all the letters of XENON PALLADIUM It can be transformed to RADIUM thus: PALLADIUM > 16 + 1 + (12/12) + ADIUM > 18 + ADIUM > RADIUM PALLADIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as RADIUM PHOSPHORUS It contains all the letters of SULPHUR except the L PLATINUM It contains TIN PLATINUM Its last 3 letters are the same as the last 3 letters of ALUMINUM, LANTHANUM and MOLYBDENUM PLUTONIUM A double substitute-letter transposal of NEPTUNIUM PLUTONIUM It contains the letters of TIN PLUTONIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as NIHONIUM, POLONIUM and ZIRCONIUM POLONIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as NIHONIUM, PLUTONIUM and ZIRCONIUM POLONIUM It has a similar sequence of letters to SELENIUM ((ie consonant-vowel-L-same vowel-NIUM) POTASSIUM It rhymes with HASSIUM POTASSIUM It shares the last 6 letters with HASSIUM PRASEODYMIUM It contains the letters of OSMIUM PRASEODYMIUM It contains the letters of SODIUM in order PRASEODYMIUM It contains the letters of RADIUM in order PRASEODYMIUM The last 8 letters are the same as the last 8 letters of NEODYMIUM PROMETHIUM It contains the letters of THORIUM PROMETHIUM It has the same last 5 letters as LITHIUM PROTACTINIUM It contains ACTINIUM PROTACTINIUM It contains the letters of IRON PROTACTINIUM It contains TIN RADIUM A substitute-letter transposal of BARIUM RADIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as PALLADIUM RADIUM Its letters can be found in order in DARMSTADTIUM RADON A substitute-letter transposal of ARGON RHENIUM A double substitute-letter transposal of RHODIUM RHENIUM The 2 letters UT can be added to give RUTHENIUM RHODIUM A double substitute-letter transposal of RHENIUM RHODIUM Substitute-letter transposals of BOHRIUM and THORIUM ROENTGENIUM It contains the letters of NEON ROENTGENIUM It contains the letters of NITROGEN ROENTGENIUM It contains the letters of TIN RUBIDIUM It contains all the letters of IRIDIUM RUBIDIUM The last 5 letters are the same as the last 5 letters of IRIDIUM RUTHENIUM It contains the letters of TIN RUTHENIUM The letters UT can be deleted to give RHENIUM RUTHERFORDIUM It contains the letters of THORIUM in order SAMARIUM A substitute-letter transposal of MASURIUM, an earlier proposed name for TECHNETIUM SCANDIUM It has the same last 5 letters as INDIUM SEABORGIUM It contains the letters of BARIUM SELENIUM 7 of its 8 letters appear in MENDELEVIUM SELENIUM It has a similar sequence of letters to POLONIUM ((ie consonant-vowel-L-same vowel-NIUM) SILICON 6 of its 7 letters appear in CALIFORNIUM SILVER The last 5 letters can be rearranged to give the first 5 letters of LIVERMORIUM SODIUM A substitute-letter transposal of OSMIUM SODIUM All the letters appear in DYSPROSIUM SODIUM Its earlier name was NATRIUM, which is a substitute-letter transposal of URANIUM SODIUM Its letters can be found in PRASEODYMIUM STRONTIUM It contains the letters of IRON STRONTIUM It contains the letters of TIN SULFUR / SULPHUR 6 of SULPHUR's letters appear in PHOSPHORUS SULFUR / SULPHUR The last 2 letters are the first 2 letters of URANIUM TANTALUM The last 4 letters are first 4 letters of ALUMINUM TECHNETIUM An earlier proposed name was MASURIUM, which is a substitute-letter transposal of SAMARIUM TECHNETIUM An earlier proposed name was NEOMOLYBDENUM, with the last 10 letters being MOLYBDENUM TECHNETIUM It contains the letters of TIN TECHNETIUM It has the same last 5 letters as LUTETIUM TELLURIUM It has the same last 5 letters as CURIUM TENNESSINE It contains letters of TIN in order TERBIUM 2 letters can be added at front to give YTTERBIUM TERBIUM It can be beheaded to give ERBIUM THALLIUM It has the same last 6 letters as GALLIUM THALLIUM It rhymes with GALLIUM THORIUM Its letters can be found in order in RUTHERFORDIUM THORIUM Its letters can be found in PROMETHIUM THORIUM It is a substitute-letter transposal of both BOHRIUM and RHODIUM THULIUM A double substitute-letter transposal of BISMUTH THULIUM A double substitute-letter transposal of HOLMIUM THULIUM A substitute-letter transposal of LITHIUM TIN Its letters appear in ACTINIUM, ANTIMONY, ASTATINE, EINSTEINIUM, MEITNERIUM, NEPTUNIUM, NITROGEN, PLATINUM, PLUTONIUM,  PROTACTINIUM, RUTHENIUM, STRONTIUM,  TECHNETIUM, TENNESSINE, TITANIUM TIN Its letters appear together in order in ACTINIUM, PLATINUM, PROTACTINIUM TIN Its letters appear together in reverse order in NITROGEN TITANIUM It contains the letters of TIN in order TUNGSTEN It begins and ends with the same letters as TIN URANIUM A substitute-letter transposal of NATRIUM, an earlier name for SODIUM, which explains why SODIUM’s symbol is Na URANIUM Its first 2 letters are the last 2 letters of SULPHUR/SULFUR VANADIUM It has the same last 5 letters as RADIUM XENON A transaddition of NEON XENON All the letters appear in OXYGEN YTTERBIUM It contains ERBIUM YTTERBIUM It contains TERBIUM YTTERBIUM It contains the letters of YTTRIUM YTTERBIUM The 2 T's can be swapped for 2 L's, and rearranged to give BERYLLIUM YTTRIUM Its letters can be found in order in YTTERBIUM ZINC Its letters appear in ZIRCONIUM ZIRCONIUM It contains the letters of IRON, in order ZIRCONIUM It contains the letters of ZINC ZIRCONIUM It ends with the same 5 letters as NIHONIUM, PLUTONIUM and POLONIUM   

The Periodic Table\u27s 150th Anniversary

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The Periodic Table\u27s 150th Anniversary

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