Please read the entry before reading this edit, otherwise i guarantee you will be absolutely lost in the jungle and no rabbits can save you.

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:D gabriel thought this for me, and i think this term really suits me a chemist with stable background (anyway just crapping) with useful and real substance.

Chemical name for Xiaoyun: [(XenonIodoSilverOxide) de-Germanium] (YittriumUranateNitrogen)

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hehe, I was literally studying my new periodic table that i printed from the net and came up with some silly stuffs that I thought might be interesting. I’m full of nonsense anyway.:P

I thought, why not I translate this silly idea into a game for my site. I’m not sure if there is any sort of this game existing in other sites at all, perhaps similar, but i hope I am still original to remain innovative. It is 100% purely my makeup initially, with no copyright intended. I shall not keep the suspense but reveal the idea, partly to serve as an evidence that i did not copy it before anyone else redirects me to the pioneers of this concept. Even though that at its early stage, the game might have many flaws, i hope i can be able to cover them up by imposing some rules.

Chemistry students should be more familiar with all the terms but it should be playable by all. Lets call it “the periodic table game” before I come out with some exotic name for it. Those who are interested to find out how the periodic table looks like can check it out.

Before I go on to explain the game mechanics and its possible rules, I thought i should introduce how i get the idea. I was studying the periodic table during lecture out of sheer boredom and found that periodic table is pretty interesting. I saw a chemical symbol of the element, Niobium, which is denoted by Nb. for those who know hokkien dialect, you should guess that it is also a short form to some vulgarity word. For those who don’t know hokkien, i think i just told you what it can represents.

Well, for a further thought, it somehow linked me to think that since non-japanese can seek to know their japanese names, why not using periodic table to replace a name with the names of the elements (by chopping up the name into chemical symbols and replacing the chemical symbols with their proper names). Like japanese naming,
form by dissection of the foreign names into portions and translating them to japanese characters by the pronouciation or romanji, the periodic table can do that too!

For a start, i tried converting my best friend name, Catherine into a chemical name.

Separating the name into element symbols: Catherine —> Ca Th Er I Ne
Converting element symbols into element(chemical) names: CalciumThoriumErbiumIodineNeon
*notice there is no space so the whole thing can be translated back to ‘catherine’ with no spaces*

which proves to be a 100% conversion rate! Well, getting confused with the term i used? Actually, I found out while trying out my name, Xiaoyun, that no elements have the symbols ‘Xi’ and ‘a’ (and later ‘g’, ‘e’ etc) to fully translate the name (no 100% ).

So what i do is to twist my name a little, like japanese style of changing my ‘xiao’ to ’shao’ since ‘xi’ is not in their syllabal too. I twisted my name and therefore:

Twisting the name: Xiao Yun —> Siau Yun
Separating the name into element symbols: Si Au Y U N
Converting element symbols into element(chemical) names: SiliconGold YttriumUraniumNitrogen
*notice there is a space this time to denote a separate word*

How cool is my chemical name?

And probably, we can use it to scold people if we don’t want them to know what we are trying to imply:

Element(chemical) names: FluorineUraniumCarbonPotassium Uranium

if i think you should be clever enough to search one of the periodic table and convert to its true meaning.

So while i’m trying to introduce how i manage to get this game idea, i think some of you might have catch an idea of how the mechanic behind the thing works.

I will probably be providing a table with all the Element names —> Symbols (or letter) and anyone can be able to translate a strange paragraph of element names into a proper sensible english paragraph.

Rule 1 (for me actually):

I mentioned earlier that some alphabets does not have a element symbol in the periodic table to represent them. Example, L is not a symbol of any element.

Letters with this problem are: A, D, E, G, H, J, L, M etc.

however when met with words like ‘line’ we can separate it to ‘li’ and ‘ne’ and the chemical name would be ‘LithiumNeon’.

So it will somehow solve the problem even if the letter does not have a letter to represent it.

Rule 2:

Element symbols can be used in a reverse manner.

Example, symbol ‘Pm’(Promethium) can be used as ‘mp’ when Promethium has a * behind it.

For the chemical name ‘LanthanumPromethium*’ can be translated to ‘LaPm*’ —> ‘Lamp’

Rule 3:

For letters like J which does not even appear as a letter in the periodic table, some personalised word will be used as replacement, you never know I might find some J element in future and be awarded a noble prize .
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For A, probably i will be using the same method or other element to replace it, of course informing players about the ‘change’ in symbol in the table that i would draw.

For the game, i would be posting a chemical name sentence/paragraph/word like ‘Iodine Americium CopperTellurium’ and the winner will be the first person who posted or emailed me the correct translation, which is ‘I am cute’. Or perhaps, sometimes i just post a sentence like ‘I am cute’ and will be seeking for answers like ‘Iodine Americium CopperTellurium’ or ‘Iodine Americium CarbonUraniumTellurium’

well, pretty long entry, i will be setting this up once i am free from tests and projects. Probably be taking me months to find loopholes to the game.