Although we completed our full-time studies of Chemistry a little over 40 years ago, we have always kept a keen interest in developments in the discipline. One area of interest has been the evolution of instrumentation - analytical tools that once required dedicated rooms and facilities can now be found as "just another tool" sitting on a bench or even as portable devices. Another area of interest has been the gradual increase in the number of identified and officially recognised chemical elements, although some of these elements exist for very short periods of time.
Chemical elements have many different characteristics:
- General (such as their element name, chemical symbol and history)
- Physical (such as atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density etc)
- Chemical (as described by their wide range of chemical reactions)
The following ten elements (listed in alphabetical order) are used in this puzzle:
aluminium
cadmium
manganese
nickel
palladium
platinum
potassium
rubidium
samarium
technetium
Your task is to rank these elements by another characteristic. Whilst there is agreement between many reputable sources about the value of the characteristic for nearly all the elements, there are a small number of differences. The ten elements have been chosen so that any ambiguity in the characteristic will have no impact on the correct ranking of the elements.
Once this has been completed, assign the digit "0" to the first in the list, "1" to the second in the list etc, with the last element in the list being assigned the digit "9". Then use the digit values to determine the location of the cache which is at
S 42 50. aluminium cadmium potassium
E 147 13. palladium nickel rubidium
You can check your answers for Montrose List 14 - It's Elementary on
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
or with GeoChecker - hopefully one will behave properly!!!!
