Current Quiz:
What is the most corrosion resistant elemental metal in existence?


Answer to last clever person quiz:
Q: We know that Santa Claus is named after Saint Nick. The element Nickel is named after another Nick, which one?

A: Nickel is named after 'old nick', a popular name for the Devil in years past. When Nickel was first discovered it was as a nickel arsenide (niccolite). Because it resembled a copper ore, when attempts to isolate the copper were unsuccessful, it was deemed to be bedeviled by 'old nick', hence the German name 'kupfernickel'.