Polls
- How many elements have valid element symbols at the center (middle letter if odd number of letters in name, middle two if even) of their name? Bonus for naming the two that contain their own symbols. - 11 votes - open
- States and symbols - No cheating and looking it up! How many US states have two letter postal abbreviations that are also symbols for elements on the periodic table? - 18 votes - open
- It's Nobel Prize time of year again. Here are some of the 'favorites', who do you think will win? - 22 votes - open
- How do you pronounce Job as in Job's Method? - 13 votes - open
- How are you going to use VIPEr this year? - 13 votes - open
- A new blue pigment is soon to be a crayon (http://www.businessinsider.com/new-blue-discovery-2017-5). What should the color be called? - 14 votes - open
- This summer I do solemnly swear to post ____ new Learning Objects (small discrete educational materials like a problem, a mini-lecture or a lab experiment) to VIPEr. - 10 votes - open
- How did your students do on their first exam? - 8 votes - open
- Is ethylene isoelectronic to dioxygen? - 6 votes - open
- It's finally official, the names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have been approved. How long before an element >118 receives an official name? - 3 votes - open
- It's that time again, The 2016 Nobel in Chemistry will go to... - 14 votes - open
- Which of the proposed new element names and symbols do you like the most? - 12 votes - open
- Summer is here, a great time to... - 5 votes - open
- What are you looking forward to the most at the ACS meeting in San Diego? - 3 votes - open
- With 4 new elements being recognized by IUPAC, what letters or letter combination would you most like to see in the symbols for those elements? - 15 votes - open