Elements

This element is named for a rock in the ground

• selenium
• scandium
• silicon
• antimony

Which element's name originates from a red stone?

• beryllium
• nobelium
• bismuth
• berkelium

Which element come from the Arabic word "buraq"?

• boron
• bismuth
• beryllium
• barium

Which element was originally known as calx?

• californium
• carbon
• calcium
• cadmium

Which element occurs in the orange-yellow mineral called orpiment?

• astatine
• arsenic
• hassium
• praseodymium

Which element is named after a mineral, which itself was named after a Russian mine official?

• samarium
• sulfur
• osmium
• vanadium

Which element is named after a Greek word that means "stink"?

• bromine
• boron
• barium
• bohrium

Which element's compounds "have colorful sheens"?

• cesium
• chromium
• curium
• carbon

Which element is named after the Greek word for "pale-green"?

• chlorine
• cobalt
• cesium
• californium

Which element "starts white, until its colors come out"?

• bismuth
• boron
• iodine
• sodium