• Question: do you know the periodic table off by heart?

    Asked by ashpie to Adam, Joanna, Louise S, Louise W, Marcus on 16 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Louise Stanley

      Louise Stanley answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      Not now …… I think I did know most of it at some point when I was at school. We had a song that was sung to us through a TV program which really helped to remember it – I will see if I can find it on u-tube and post a link later!

    • Photo: Joanna Giles

      Joanna Giles answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      I’m the same, I could probably recite the first 20 – we had a song too! I wish I could remember it – looking forward to your link Louise! 🙂

    • Photo: Louise Walkin

      Louise Walkin answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      Yeah, I think I knew roundabouts where everything was and the first 20-30 were easy to remember. Real life chemists probably know if off by heart but you can always refer to it anyway.

      I never knew the whole table but look what Daniel Radcliffe can do!! 🙂

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      Adam Paige answered on 19 Nov 2012:

      Yeah Daniel Radcliffe. Loved that song at school.

      I don’t know it all (especially now. Could remember more when I was a chemistry student, but now I focus on genetics and biology). But recently one of my brothers and I were doing some online quizzes and one was to name elements. We managed 88 out of 118 in the timelimit (10 minutes I believe). Can you do better?

    • Photo: Marcus Wilson

      Marcus Wilson answered on 20 Nov 2012:

      We are all biologists, so we only reall need to know about a few elements. the human body is 99% carbon, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, oxygen and hydrogen.
      In total there are 30 elements in the human body and 46 in a mobile phone!

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