A Punster Reworks Old Names - You May Smile
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| 100% | ACTINIUM | A Chemical That Is Not In Use Much |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who has almost singlehandedly acronymised the entire periodic table. |
| 90% | ALUMINIUM | American Lexicographers Usually Misspell It. Nowadays It's (a) Useful Metal. |
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| 90% | AMERICIUM | A Metal, Exceedingly Radioactive, It's Created (of) Intensely Unstable Matter. |
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| 89% | ANTIMONY | A Nasty Toxin. It Means Oncoming Necrosis (for) You. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ANTIMONY (2) | A Naughty Tony (In Mirth Only) Negates _You_ |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to ANTI- |
| 100% | ARGON | A Royal Gas?! Oh, Noble! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ARGON (2) | A Rare Gas Of Nature |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ARSENIC | A Reliable Solution Employed Nastily In Crimes |
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| 100% | ASTATINE | Amazingly Short-Term. All Twenty Isotopes Naturally Exist. |
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| 100% | BARIUM | Before A Radiograph Is Unpopular Meal |
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| 75% | BERKELIUM | Bombardment Effectively Reduced (a) Known Element Little-by-little Into Unstable Mass. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 75% | BERYLLIUM | Basically Exposure Resistant Yes? Lasts a Longtime. It's Used More-and-more |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BISMUTH | Bisodol Is Still Much Used Treating Hangovers! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 71% | BORON | Believers Opine (it's) Requirement in One's Nutrition. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 78% | BROMINE | Believed to Reduce Obsessions Militarily It's No-longer Employed. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BRONZE | Be Really Open - Nearness Zenithal Emotionally. |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the bronze (8th) wedding anniversary. |
| 100% | CADMIUM | Chemical Apparently Defends Metals In Unfriendly Milieus. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CALCIUM | Common And Like Chalk It's, Unusually, Metallic |
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| 100% | CALIFORNIUM | Classified Actinide. Lecturers In Fusion Often Refer. Named In University's Memory. |
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| 100% | CARBON | Constituent All Real Breathing Organisms Need |
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| 100% | CERIUM | Chemical Element Resident In Umpteen Minerals. |
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| 100% | CESIUM | Clock Element. Standard In Universal Measurement. |
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| 100% | CHLORINE | Common Halogen. Liquifies Often. Respiration Is Not Easy. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | CHROMIUM | Corrosion-resistance (and) Hardness Requires Other Metals' Introduction, Usually Molybdenum. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | COBALT | Colourful Original Blue, Artists Layer Thickly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | COLUMBIUM | Chemical Of Lustre. Usually Mined By Industrious Underground Miners. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | COPPER | Commonly Our Police, Properly Earthly Resource |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | CURIUM | Can Unleash Radiation If Used Meetly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DYSPROSIUM | Do You Suppose People Realise Our Sillinesses Indicate Unsound Minds? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 83% | DYSPROSIUM (2) | Difficultly Yielded Substance, Popular (in) Reactor Operations Since It's Ultra (para)-Magnetic. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | EINSTEINIUM | Excluded In Nature, Since Thermonuclear Explosions It's Now Introduced Unto Mankind. |
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| 75% | ERBIUM | Employed in Reactor Bits. It's Uses (are) Marginal. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | EUROPIUM | Evidently Ultra Reactive - Oxide's Phosphoresence Is Used (for) Magenta. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 88% | FERMIUM | Fermi, Enrico Recalled to Mind. It's Unnaturally Manufactured. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FLOURINE | Frequently Liquified On Unclean Reservoirs. It Nourishes Enamel. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | FRANCIUM | From Radioactive Actinium. Number Conjectured, If Undiscovered, by Mendeleyev. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | GADOLINIUM | Generally A Denizen Of (the) Lanthanides, It's Now In Use (in) Masers. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 78% | GALLIUM | Geophysically At Low Levels, It's Unusual (at) Melting-point. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | GERMANIUM | Grayish Element. Radar Meant A New Interest (and) Uses Multiplied. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | GOLD | Good Old Lucre, Delightful! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | GOLD (3) | Glittering Ore Lures Diggers. |
Roger Williams |
| 88% | HAFNIUM | Hungarian Assisted in Finding & Naming It, Useful Metal. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 86% | HELIUM | Handy Element. Lift Is Utilised (in) Mobility. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 86% | HELIUM (2) | Has Elevatory Lightness, Is Used in Mobility. |
Angela Brett |
| 88% | HOLMIUM | Hardly Occurring Light Metal, It's Usually Mineral-based. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | HYDROGEN | Helpfully Yields Deuterium, Rarely. Often Gaseous, Extensive in Nature. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | INDIUM | Indigo-Named, Ductile - If Uncommon - Metal. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | IODINE | In Ocean Depths It's Never Ending |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | IRIDIUM | Its Rainbowness Is Displayed In Useful Mixtures. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | IRON | It Rusts, Oh No! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 88% | KRYPTON | Kal-el? Really! Young People Think Of Nothingelse. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 82% | LANTHANUM | Lanthanides Are Named (from) This. Happens Among Nature in Uncommon Minerals. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | LAWRENCIUM | Like A Whole Range of Elements - Non-natural. Created In University Machines. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LEAD | Lies Expressionless And Dead |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LITHIUM | Lightens Internal Tensions, Happily Is Useful Medicine |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | LUTETIUM | Little Used, Tenuous Element, This Is Used in Meteorite-aging. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | MAGNESIUM | Metal Able to Generate Nasty Explosions. Sulphate Is Used Medicinally. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | MANGANESE | Marine-Acquired Nodules - Generally A Not Expensive Source (of) Electricity. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 79% | MENDELEVIUM | Metallic Element. Named (for) Dmitry - (who) Executed Layout of Elements, Visually Indicating Unions - Mendeleyev. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MERCURY (2) | Mobile, Exceptionally, Rarely Contained, Usually Rather Yielding |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | MOLYBDENUM | Mistaken Once (for) Lead, Yet Because it Doesn't Exist Naturally, Usually Manufactured. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | NEODYMIUM | Natural Element - Oxide Deployed in Your Monitor In Underpinning Mismatches. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | NEON | Now Enlivening Our Nighttimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 75% | NEPTUNIUM | Neptunium Emits Particles That (are) Useful. Neutron-detection Instruments Use it Much. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | NICKEL | Nominally In Coinage, Keeps Everything Light |
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| 88% | NIOBIUM | Nigeria Is Outstanding Begetter of Industrially Used Material. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | NITROGEN | Naturally Inert - To Render Oxides Great Energy is Needed. |
Angela Brett |
| 89% | NOBELIUM | Nature Omitted Building (this) Element. Laboratory Its Ultimate Maker. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | OSMIUM | Overly Solid Metal, Is Usually Mixed |
Angela Brett. (Osmium is very dense and is mainly used in alloys) |
| 86% | OSMIUM (2) | Offensive Smell Maker - It's Used in Measurement. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | OXYGEN | Obviously Xeric, Yet Greatly Essential Necessity. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | PALLADIUM | Pallas Athene Linked. Light Alloy in Dentistry, It's Un-Magnetic. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PHOSPHORUS | Pilots Have Over-Supply. Potentially Hellfire Objects Relayed Unto Scene |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PLATINUM | Pricey Ladies' Adornment. Typically Inert, Not Usually Magnetic. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 82% | PLUTONIUM | Popularly Linked (with) Uranium To Operate Nuclear Industry's Unleashing of Megatons. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 73% | POLONIUM | Pierre Originally Located Occurrences - Nobel-winning-work In Union (with) Marie. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 0% | POTASSIUM | Perchlorate Of This Alkali (is) Sparingly Soluble Indeed, Unless (I'm) Mistaken. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | PRASEODYMIUM | Properly Recognised A Separate Element (after) Ongoing Doubt, Yet Much In Use in Misch-metal. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 91% | PROMETHIUM | Possibly Real, Observers Made Experiments To Have Inspected (it) Under Microspectrophotometer. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PROTACTINIUM | Particularly Rarely Occurring. Tiny Amounts Cost Thousands. It's Not In Use Much. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 86% | RADIUM | Radio-Active Decay Is Used in Medicine. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | RADON | Rarely A Desired Occurrence, Naturally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RHENIUM | Rather Hard Element, Not - Indeed - Unlike Manganese. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 78% | RHODIUM | Reflective, Highly in Optics, Determining It's Use (in) Mirrors. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RUBIDIUM | Rather Uncommon, But If Discovered Is Usually Minute. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | RUTHENIUM | Regularly Used To Harden (other) Elements. Name Is Ukrainian, Maybe. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | SAMARIUM | Semi-Abundant Metal. A Rare-earth, Is Usually Mineral-based. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SCANDIUM | Swedish Chemistry Artisan - Nilson - Discovered It, Underpinning Mendeleyev. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SELENIUM | Sometimes Ends Life, Evidently. Nasty In Unpleasant Mixtures. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SILICON | Sometimes In Ladies Increases Cleavage, Or Neckline |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 86% | SILVER | Sought In Large Veins (to) Enhance Reserves |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SILVER (3) | Substance, In Light, Very Easily Reflects. |
Timothy Chambers |
| 100% | SODIUM | Salt Of Davy's Independent Unique Manufacture. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | STRONTIUM | Serious Toxic Radiation Of ÔNinety' Titled Isotope is Ultimately Mortiferous. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SULPHUR | Smells Uniquely, Like Pheasants Hung Until Rotten |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | TITANIUM | Transplanting of Inert Titanium Alloys Nowadays Is Useful Medically. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 75% | TIN | Ten Isotopes (occur) Naturally. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 88% | THULIUM | This Hardly Ubiquitous Lanthanide's Irradiation is Used Medicinally. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | THORIUM | This Has Only Rare Industrial Uses, Mostly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | THALLIUM | This Heavy Atom, Like Lead, Is Ultra-Malign. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | TERBIUM | This Exhibits Rare Behaviour - It's Unusual, Magnetically. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | TELLURIUM | This Element Looks Little Unusual, Really Is Ultra Mundane. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 91% | TECHNETIUM | The Earliest Creation of Humans. Name Evoking, Translationally, Its Unnatural Manufacture. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | TANTALUM | Thought-of As Niobium. Though A Largely Unmeltable Metal. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | URANIUM | Unpleasant Radiation - And Normally Is Used Militarily |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | VANADIUM | Various Alloys Now Abundant & Durable - It's Unlikely (to) Melt |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | XENON | Xe-symbolled Element, Non-Odorous Normally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | YTTERBIUM | You Try This Expansion. Reference Book Is Unhelpful, Mostly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 90% | YTTERBIUM (2) | Ytterby Titled This Element - Rarely Boils (as) It's Unusually Massive. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | YTTRIUM | Your Television Tube Requires It's Use, Mainly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ZINC | Zenith In Non-Corrosion |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 90% | ZIRCONIUM | Zounds, It Resists Corrosion, Occurs Nonferrously In Unions (with) Metals |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | TUNGSTEN | Typically Used Nowadays Generating Steel-alloys, Transition Element, Naturally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |