The raw materials
All 118 elements
Every tile you can spell with. Tap any element to see where its name came from and when it was found. Type a word to light up the elements that spell it.
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When were they found?
Elements by era of discovery (first identified or isolated).
Odd ones out
- Ytterby, a single village in Sweden, gave its name to four elements: yttrium, terbium, erbium and ytterbium.
- Eleven symbols don't match their English names because they come from older Latin names (or, for tungsten's W, the German "wolfram"): Na, K, Fe, Cu, Ag, Sn, Sb, W, Au, Hg and Pb.
- Only two elements are liquid at room temperature: mercury and bromine — the "Br" in Breaking Bad.
- Helium was spotted in the Sun's spectrum in 1868, decades before it was found on Earth.
- Technetium (1937) was the first element made artificially; its name means "artificial".
- Oganesson (118) is named after Yuri Oganessian — one of only two elements named after someone alive at the time.