It’s Elementary! Mystery Cache

For the North…

N AA°BB’C.DD”

• An element with an atomic weight of 101.07, discovered by Karl Klaus in 1844, and named for the location of the discovery will provide the degrees(AA) North.
• An element with an atomic weight of 102.9055, discovered by William Wollaston in 1803 and named from the greek for the word rose give the minutes(BB) North.
• This metalloid element, which is not found naturally, has an atomic weight of 10.811 and was first isolated as an element in 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy and by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard gives the seconds(C) North.
• A rare earth metal with a bright silver luster, this element has an atomic weight of 150.36 and was discovered in 1853 by Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, and isolated in Paris in 1879 by French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and will give you the seconds(DD) North.

For the West…

W EE°FF’G.HH”

• A valuable metallic element, known to the ancients, with an atomic weight of 196.96654 and whose symbol is derived from the Latin for “Shining Dawn” gives the degrees(EE) West.
• This soft, silvery, ductile metal with an atomic weight of 140.116 was discovered in Sweden by Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Wilhelm Hisinger, and independently in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, both in 1803. With it's name coming from a dwarf planet which was discovered two years earlier in 1801, it will provide the Minutes(FF) West.
• This most common of chemical elements, with an atomic weight of 1.00794, was first recognized as a discrete substance in 1766 by Henry Cavendish(who is often credited with its discovery) but it wasn't named until 1783, when Antoine Lavoisier took it's name from the Greek word meaning water because water is produced when it is burned, will provide the Seconds(G) West.
• The existence of this element was first predicted by Bohuslav Brauner in 1902, but it was not truly produced and characterized until 1945 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by Jacob A. Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell, but because of military research during WWII the discovery was not announced until 1947. With an atomic weight of 145 it was named after a Titan in Greek mythology at the suggestion of Charles Coryell's wife, Grace Mary, who felt they were stealing fire from the gods, it gives the Decimal Seconds(HH) West.

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