Wheel of Elements: Classical, Fantasy and Chemical

Spin fire, water, earth or air, a fantasy element such as shadow or lava, or any of the 118 chemical elements.

Wheel of Elements: Classical, Fantasy and Chemical

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Tellurium

Symbol Te, atomic number 52. Group 16. Named from Latin tellus, ground or earth.

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150 elements on the wheel.

Numbers on the wheel

  1. Wood
  2. Fire
  3. Earth
  4. Metal
  5. Water
  6. Air
  7. Aether
  8. Void
  9. Lava
  10. Steam
  11. Smoke
  12. Mud
  13. Mist
  14. Sand
  15. Ice
  16. Lightning
  17. Storm
  18. Light
  19. Shadow
  20. Nature
  21. Sound
  22. Poison
  23. Crystal
  24. Glass
  25. Ash
  26. Spirit
  27. Time
  28. Gravity
  29. Moon
  30. Sun
  31. Star
  32. Dream
  33. Hydrogen
  34. Helium
  35. Lithium
  36. Beryllium
  37. Boron
  38. Carbon
  39. Nitrogen
  40. Oxygen
  41. Fluorine
  42. Neon
  43. Sodium
  44. Magnesium
  45. Aluminium
  46. Silicon
  47. Phosphorus
  48. Sulfur
  49. Chlorine
  50. Argon
  51. Potassium
  52. Calcium
  53. Scandium
  54. Titanium
  55. Vanadium
  56. Chromium
  57. Manganese
  58. Iron
  59. Cobalt
  60. Nickel
  61. Copper
  62. Zinc
  63. Gallium
  64. Germanium
  65. Arsenic
  66. Selenium
  67. Bromine
  68. Krypton
  69. Rubidium
  70. Strontium
  71. Yttrium
  72. Zirconium
  73. Niobium
  74. Molybdenum
  75. Technetium
  76. Ruthenium
  77. Rhodium
  78. Palladium
  79. Silver
  80. Cadmium
  81. Indium
  82. Tin
  83. Antimony
  84. Tellurium
  85. Iodine
  86. Xenon
  87. Caesium
  88. Barium
  89. Lanthanum
  90. Cerium
  91. Praseodymium
  92. Neodymium
  93. Promethium
  94. Samarium
  95. Europium
  96. Gadolinium
  97. Terbium
  98. Dysprosium
  99. Holmium
  100. Erbium
  101. Thulium
  102. Ytterbium
  103. Lutetium
  104. Hafnium
  105. Tantalum
  106. Tungsten
  107. Rhenium
  108. Osmium
  109. Iridium
  110. Platinum
  111. Gold
  112. Mercury
  113. Thallium
  114. Lead
  115. Bismuth
  116. Polonium
  117. Astatine
  118. Radon
  119. Francium
  120. Radium
  121. Actinium
  122. Thorium
  123. Protactinium
  124. Uranium
  125. Neptunium
  126. Plutonium
  127. Americium
  128. Curium
  129. Berkelium
  130. Californium
  131. Einsteinium
  132. Fermium
  133. Mendelevium
  134. Nobelium
  135. Lawrencium
  136. Rutherfordium
  137. Dubnium
  138. Seaborgium
  139. Bohrium
  140. Hassium
  141. Meitnerium
  142. Darmstadtium
  143. Roentgenium
  144. Copernicium
  145. Nihonium
  146. Flerovium
  147. Moscovium
  148. Livermorium
  149. Tennessine
  150. Oganesson

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  1. 1. Tellurium

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Wheel of Elements: Classical, Fantasy and Chemical: how it works

This wheel of elements holds 150 entries in three sets. Eight come from old philosophy: the Greek four plus aether, the Chinese five phases and the Japanese void. Twenty-four are fantasy staples such as ice and shadow. The other 118 are the chemical elements. Tap a chip for one kind of element, spin the wheel and read the card.

Which set to spin for a character

The Classical and fantasy elements chip is the elemental wheel: 32 entries, each with a limit or a rival. Aristotle gave each of the Greek four two qualities: fire is hot and dry, water cold and wet. Tap Wuxing and the wheel draws its cycle clockwise: wood feeds fire, fire makes earth, earth bears metal, metal collects water, water nourishes wood. Blends of two pairs the Greek four six ways, from lava to mist.

Spin the periodic table with no repeats

For a quiz night, tap Elements 1 to 36 and switch to Elimination. Each winner leaves the wheel, so hydrogen to krypton gives 36 questions. Read the name aloud, let the table answer with the symbol and atomic number, then check the card. It adds the name origin: cobalt from Kobold, a goblin, argon from the Greek for idle.

Tips

  • Spin twice on the classical and fantasy chip and keep both, one main, one minor. Fire with a trace of mist is a character. Fire alone is a label.
  • For a name, tap Named after myths and the sky. Eighteen are named after gods, Titans, mortals of Greek myth, planets and mine spirits: thorium, promethium, tantalum, nickel.
  • For turn order, each player spins the Wuxing chip once. Each phase overcomes the next but one clockwise: metal chops wood, water dampens fire. Whoever overcomes the player on their left goes first.

Questions and answers

What are the classical elements?

Fire, earth, air and water. Empedocles proposed them as a set around 450 BC and called them roots. Aristotle added a fifth, aether, for the stars. The Chinese wuxing names wood, fire, earth, metal and water, which scholars now call five phases because they describe change, not substance.

Are all 118 chemical elements on the wheel?

Yes, hydrogen (1) to oganesson (118), checked against Wikipedia's list on 18 September 2026. Eight chips follow the table's groups, from alkali metals to noble gases. Zinc, cadmium, mercury and copernicium count as transition metals here, though some chemists leave group 12 out.

Why is there a Seven metals of alchemy chip?

Alchemists paired the seven metals known since antiquity with the seven classical planets: gold with the Sun, silver with the Moon, quicksilver with Mercury, copper with Venus, iron with Mars, tin with Jupiter, lead with Saturn. Only mercury kept the name.

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All 150 elements

Greek four plus aether 5

  • Aether Aristotle's fifth element, the quintessence: the unchanging stuff of the stars, set apart from the four earthly elements.
  • Air Hot and wet in Aristotle's scheme, and Plato gave it the octahedron. The Japanese godai calls it wind.
  • Earth Cold and dry in Aristotle's scheme, and Plato gave it the cube. In wuxing it bears metal and contains water.
  • Fire Hot and dry in Aristotle's scheme, and Plato gave it the tetrahedron. In wuxing, wood feeds it and it melts metal. The stock rival of water and ice.
  • Water Cold and wet in Aristotle's scheme, and Plato gave it the icosahedron. In wuxing it nourishes wood and dampens fire.

Wuxing, the five phases 2

  • Metal A phase of Chinese wuxing: autumn, the west, white. Earth bears it, fire melts it, it collects water and it chops wood.
  • Wood A phase of Chinese wuxing: spring and the east. Water nourishes it, it feeds fire, it grips earth, and metal chops it.

Blends of two 6

  • Lava Fire plus earth. Slow, heavy and hard to stop, not quick. It cools to black rock, which gives the design a second look.
  • Mist Water plus air. Hides a whole army and soaks nobody. Pair it with a quiet character.
  • Mud Water plus earth. Traps feet, fills moats and dries into walls. Rarely chosen, which is the reason to choose it.
  • Sand Earth plus air. Dunes, glass in the making, and an hourglass motif for free.
  • Smoke Fire plus air. Blinds and chokes without burning: the element of a thief or a scout.
  • Steam Fire plus water. Scalds, hides and drives machines, so it suits an engineer as well as a mage.

Alkali metals 6

  • Caesium Symbol Cs, atomic number 55. An alkali metal. Named from Latin caesius, sky-blue. Spelled cesium in the US.
  • Francium Symbol Fr, atomic number 87. An alkali metal. Named after France, the home country of its discoverer Marguerite Perey.
  • Lithium Symbol Li, atomic number 3. An alkali metal. Named from Greek lithos, stone.
  • Potassium Symbol K, atomic number 19. An alkali metal. Named from potash, literally pot ash. The symbol comes from Neo-Latin kalium.
  • Rubidium Symbol Rb, atomic number 37. An alkali metal. Named from Latin rubidus, deep red.
  • Sodium Symbol Na, atomic number 11. An alkali metal. Humphry Davy, who first isolated it, coined the name from soda. The symbol comes from Neo-Latin natrium.

Alkaline earth metals 6

  • Barium Symbol Ba, atomic number 56. An alkaline earth metal. Named from Greek barys, heavy.
  • Beryllium Symbol Be, atomic number 4. An alkaline earth metal. Named after the mineral beryl.
  • Calcium Symbol Ca, atomic number 20. An alkaline earth metal. Named from Latin calx, lime.
  • Magnesium Symbol Mg, atomic number 12. An alkaline earth metal. Named after the Magnesia region of Thessaly, Greece.
  • Radium Symbol Ra, atomic number 88. An alkaline earth metal. Coined in French by its discoverer Marie Curie, from Latin radius, ray.
  • Strontium Symbol Sr, atomic number 38. An alkaline earth metal. Named after Strontian, the village in Scotland where it was found.

Halogens 6

  • Astatine Symbol At, atomic number 85. A halogen. Named from Greek astatos, unstable: it has no stable isotopes.
  • Bromine Symbol Br, atomic number 35. A halogen. Liquid at room temperature. Named from Greek bromos, stench.
  • Chlorine Symbol Cl, atomic number 17. A halogen. A gas at room temperature. Named from Greek chloros, greenish yellow.
  • Fluorine Symbol F, atomic number 9. A halogen. A gas at room temperature. Named from Latin fluo, to flow.
  • Iodine Symbol I, atomic number 53. A halogen. From French iode, from the Greek for violet.
  • Tennessine Symbol Ts, atomic number 117. Synthetic, in group 17 under the halogens. Named after the US state of Tennessee.

Seven metals of alchemy 7

  • Copper Symbol Cu, atomic number 29. A transition metal. From Latin cuprum, after Cyprus. Alchemists paired it with Venus.
  • Gold Symbol Au, atomic number 79. A transition metal. An English word from the same ancient root as yellow. The symbol comes from Latin aurum. Alchemists paired it with the Sun.
  • Iron Symbol Fe, atomic number 26. A transition metal. An English word from a Proto-Celtic one. The symbol comes from Latin ferrum. Alchemists paired it with Mars.
  • Lead Symbol Pb, atomic number 82. Group 14. An English word from a Proto-Celtic root meaning flow. The symbol comes from Latin plumbum. Alchemists paired it with Saturn.
  • Mercury Symbol Hg, atomic number 80. A transition metal. Liquid at room temperature. Named after the Roman god Mercury. The symbol comes from hydrargyrum, water-silver. The alchemists' quicksilver, paired with the planet Mercury.
  • Silver Symbol Ag, atomic number 47. A transition metal. An English word of Germanic origin. The symbol comes from Latin argentum. Alchemists paired it with the Moon.
  • Tin Symbol Sn, atomic number 50. Group 14. An English word of Germanic origin. The symbol comes from Latin stannum. Alchemists paired it with Jupiter.

Noble gases 7

  • Argon Symbol Ar, atomic number 18. A noble gas. Named from Greek argos, idle, because it is inert.
  • Helium Symbol He, atomic number 2. A noble gas. Named from Greek helios, the sun.
  • Krypton Symbol Kr, atomic number 36. A noble gas. Named from Greek kryptos, hidden.
  • Neon Symbol Ne, atomic number 10. A noble gas. Named from Greek neon, new.
  • Oganesson Symbol Og, atomic number 118. Synthetic, in group 18 under the noble gases. Named after the Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian.
  • Radon Symbol Rn, atomic number 86. A noble gas. The name shortens radium emanation.
  • Xenon Symbol Xe, atomic number 54. A noble gas. Named from Greek xenos, strange or foreign.

Lanthanides 15

  • Cerium Symbol Ce, atomic number 58. A lanthanide. Named after Ceres, now a dwarf planet, which was counted as a planet at the time.
  • Dysprosium Symbol Dy, atomic number 66. A lanthanide. Named from Greek dysprositos, hard to get.
  • Erbium Symbol Er, atomic number 68. A lanthanide. Named after Ytterby, Sweden, like yttrium, terbium and ytterbium.
  • Europium Symbol Eu, atomic number 63. A lanthanide. Named after Europe.
  • Gadolinium Symbol Gd, atomic number 64. A lanthanide. Named after the mineral gadolinite, itself named after the Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin.
  • Holmium Symbol Ho, atomic number 67. A lanthanide. Named from Neo-Latin Holmia, Stockholm.
  • Lanthanum Symbol La, atomic number 57. A lanthanide. Named from Greek lanthanein, to lie hidden.
  • Lutetium Symbol Lu, atomic number 71. A lanthanide. Named from Latin Lutetia, Paris. It sits in group 3, so it is tagged as a transition metal too.
  • Neodymium Symbol Nd, atomic number 60. A lanthanide. Named from the Greek for new twin.
  • Praseodymium Symbol Pr, atomic number 59. A lanthanide. Named from the Greek for green twin.
  • Promethium Symbol Pm, atomic number 61. A lanthanide. Named after Prometheus, a Titan of Greek myth.
  • Samarium Symbol Sm, atomic number 62. A lanthanide. Named after the mineral samarskite, itself named after a Russian mine official, V. Samarsky-Bykhovets.
  • Terbium Symbol Tb, atomic number 65. A lanthanide. Named after Ytterby, Sweden, where it was found.
  • Thulium Symbol Tm, atomic number 69. A lanthanide. Named after Thule, the ancient name for a northern land nobody has placed for certain.
  • Ytterbium Symbol Yb, atomic number 70. A lanthanide. One of four elements named after the village of Ytterby, Sweden.

Actinides 15

  • Actinium Symbol Ac, atomic number 89. An actinide. Named from Greek aktis, ray.
  • Americium Symbol Am, atomic number 95. A synthetic actinide. Named after the Americas, where it was first made, to match europium above it.
  • Berkelium Symbol Bk, atomic number 97. A synthetic actinide. Named after Berkeley, California, where it was first made.
  • Californium Symbol Cf, atomic number 98. A synthetic actinide. Named after California, where it was first made.
  • Curium Symbol Cm, atomic number 96. A synthetic actinide. Named after the physicists and chemists Pierre and Marie Curie.
  • Einsteinium Symbol Es, atomic number 99. A synthetic actinide. Named after the physicist Albert Einstein.
  • Fermium Symbol Fm, atomic number 100. A synthetic actinide. Named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
  • Lawrencium Symbol Lr, atomic number 103. A synthetic actinide. Named after the American physicist Ernest Lawrence. It sits in group 3, so it is tagged as a transition metal too.
  • Mendelevium Symbol Md, atomic number 101. A synthetic actinide. Named after Dmitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist who proposed the periodic table.
  • Neptunium Symbol Np, atomic number 93. An actinide. Named after the planet Neptune.
  • Nobelium Symbol No, atomic number 102. A synthetic actinide. Named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and engineer.
  • Plutonium Symbol Pu, atomic number 94. An actinide. Named after Pluto, which was counted as a planet at the time.
  • Protactinium Symbol Pa, atomic number 91. An actinide. Proto plus actinium, because it decays into actinium.
  • Thorium Symbol Th, atomic number 90. An actinide. Named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.
  • Uranium Symbol U, atomic number 92. An actinide. Named after the planet Uranus.

Named after myths and the sky 10

  • Cadmium Symbol Cd, atomic number 48. A transition metal. Named from cadmia, calamine, after King Cadmus, the mythic founder of Thebes.
  • Cobalt Symbol Co, atomic number 27. A transition metal. Named from German Kobold, a goblin.
  • Iridium Symbol Ir, atomic number 77. A transition metal. Named after Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow.
  • Nickel Symbol Ni, atomic number 28. A transition metal. Named after Nickel, a mischievous sprite in German miners' lore.
  • Niobium Symbol Nb, atomic number 41. A transition metal. Named after Niobe, daughter of King Tantalus in Greek myth. Tantalum sits directly below it in the table.
  • Palladium Symbol Pd, atomic number 46. A transition metal. Named after the asteroid Pallas, which was counted as a planet at the time.
  • Selenium Symbol Se, atomic number 34. Group 16. Named from Greek selene, the moon.
  • Tantalum Symbol Ta, atomic number 73. A transition metal. Named after King Tantalus, father of Niobe in Greek myth.
  • Titanium Symbol Ti, atomic number 22. A transition metal. Named after the Titans, children of Gaia and Ouranos in Greek myth.
  • Vanadium Symbol V, atomic number 23. A transition metal. Named after Vanadis, a name for the Norse goddess Freyja.

Elements 1 to 20 9

  • Aluminium Symbol Al, atomic number 13. Group 13. Named from alumina, from Latin alumen, a bitter salt. Spelled aluminum in the US.
  • Boron Symbol B, atomic number 5. Group 13. Named after the mineral borax.
  • Carbon Symbol C, atomic number 6. Group 14. Named from Latin carbo, coal.
  • Hydrogen Symbol H, atomic number 1. Group 1, but not a metal. A gas at room temperature. Named from Greek roots meaning water-forming. The lightest element.
  • Nitrogen Symbol N, atomic number 7. Group 15. A gas at room temperature. Named from Greek roots meaning niter-forming.
  • Oxygen Symbol O, atomic number 8. Group 16. A gas at room temperature. Named from Greek roots meaning acid-forming.
  • Phosphorus Symbol P, atomic number 15. Group 15. Named from Greek phosphoros, light-bearing.
  • Silicon Symbol Si, atomic number 14. Group 14. Named from Latin silex, flint.
  • Sulfur Symbol S, atomic number 16. Group 16. The name is Latin. One of the three primes of Paracelsus, his principle of combustibility.

Fantasy setting elements 19

  • Ash What fire leaves behind. Suits a character who arrives after the battle: gray palette, embers under the surface.
  • Crystal Earth grown in order: facets, prisms, resonance. Hard and brittle at the same time.
  • Dream Sleep, illusion and memory. Strong only when the target is tired or not paying attention.
  • Glass Sand after fire. Transparent, sharp when broken, and it bends light.
  • Gravity Heavier, lighter, sideways. It works on everything at once, including the user.
  • Ice Water with the heat taken out. Pale blues, hard edges, fogging breath. It melts near fire in most settings, so give it a rival.
  • Light Heals, blinds and reveals. The standard opposite of shadow, and not always the kind one.
  • Lightning Fast, loud and over in an instant. Decide the limit early: one strike a day, or only under open sky?
  • Moon Tides, phases and night. Power that waxes and wanes with the phases gives the story a built-in clock.
  • Nature Plants, roots and growth. Slow in a fight and unbeatable over a season.
  • Poison Works slowly and needs a delivery: fang, thorn, cup or cloud. Give the character an antidote they guard.
  • Shadow Needs a light source to exist, which is a ready-made weakness. Stealth, not evil, unless you say so.
  • Sound Echo, song and silence. Useless in a vacuum and deafening in a cave.
  • Spirit Souls, ghosts and the life in things. The usual fifth element when a setting wants one beside the classical four.
  • Star Distant light, navigation and wishes. Reads as fate or guidance more than firepower.
  • Storm Wind, rain and thunder at once. Strong at sea and on open ground, weak indoors.
  • Sun Daylight, heat and growth. Strongest at noon and gone at night: the mirror image of a moon character.
  • Time Pauses, rewinds and glimpses ahead. Always set a price, or every plot problem disappears.
  • Void The fifth of the Japanese godai, also read as sky or heaven, beside earth, water, fire and wind. In fantasy it becomes empty space that swallows things.

Groups 13 to 16 and hydrogen 13

  • Antimony Symbol Sb, atomic number 51. Group 15. From Latin antimonium, a word of unclear origin. The symbol comes from Latin stibium.
  • Arsenic Symbol As, atomic number 33. Group 15. The name goes back through French to Greek arsenikon, yellow arsenic.
  • Bismuth Symbol Bi, atomic number 83. Group 15. From German Wismut, which goes back to a Greek word for white lead.
  • Flerovium Symbol Fl, atomic number 114. Group 14, synthetic. Named after the Flerov Laboratory in Dubna, Russia, itself named after the physicist Georgy Flyorov.
  • Gallium Symbol Ga, atomic number 31. Group 13. Named from Latin Gallia, France.
  • Germanium Symbol Ge, atomic number 32. Group 14. Named from Latin Germania, Germany.
  • Indium Symbol In, atomic number 49. Group 13. Named from Latin indicum, indigo, the blue seen in its spectral lines.
  • Livermorium Symbol Lv, atomic number 116. Group 16, synthetic. Named after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
  • Moscovium Symbol Mc, atomic number 115. Group 15, synthetic. Named after Moscow, Russia.
  • Nihonium Symbol Nh, atomic number 113. Group 13, synthetic. Named from Nihon, the Japanese word for Japan, where it was first made.
  • Polonium Symbol Po, atomic number 84. Group 16. Named from Latin Polonia, Poland, the home country of its discoverer Marie Curie.
  • Tellurium Symbol Te, atomic number 52. Group 16. Named from Latin tellus, ground or earth.
  • Thallium Symbol Tl, atomic number 81. Group 13. Named from Greek thallos, a green shoot.

Elements 1 to 36 4

  • Chromium Symbol Cr, atomic number 24. A transition metal. Named from Greek chroma, color.
  • Manganese Symbol Mn, atomic number 25. A transition metal. The name is a corruption of magnesia negra, so it shares a root with magnesium.
  • Scandium Symbol Sc, atomic number 21. A transition metal. Named from Latin Scandia, Scandinavia.
  • Zinc Symbol Zn, atomic number 30. A transition metal. Most likely named from German Zinke, a prong or tooth.

Transition metals 20

  • Bohrium Symbol Bh, atomic number 107. A synthetic transition metal. Named after the Danish physicist Niels Bohr.
  • Copernicium Symbol Cn, atomic number 112. A synthetic transition metal. Named after the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
  • Darmstadtium Symbol Ds, atomic number 110. A synthetic transition metal. Named after Darmstadt, Germany, where it was first made.
  • Dubnium Symbol Db, atomic number 105. A synthetic transition metal. Named after Dubna, Russia, where it was discovered.
  • Hafnium Symbol Hf, atomic number 72. A transition metal. Named from Neo-Latin Hafnia, Copenhagen.
  • Hassium Symbol Hs, atomic number 108. A synthetic transition metal. Named from Neo-Latin Hassia, the German state of Hesse.
  • Meitnerium Symbol Mt, atomic number 109. A synthetic transition metal. Named after the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner.
  • Molybdenum Symbol Mo, atomic number 42. A transition metal. Named from Greek molybdos, lead, because its ore was confused with a lead ore.
  • Osmium Symbol Os, atomic number 76. A transition metal. Named from Greek osme, smell.
  • Platinum Symbol Pt, atomic number 78. A transition metal. Named from Spanish platina, little silver.
  • Rhenium Symbol Re, atomic number 75. A transition metal. Named from Latin Rhenus, the Rhine.
  • Rhodium Symbol Rh, atomic number 45. A transition metal. Named from Greek rhodoeis, rose-colored.
  • Roentgenium Symbol Rg, atomic number 111. A synthetic transition metal. Named after the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen.
  • Ruthenium Symbol Ru, atomic number 44. A transition metal. Named from Neo-Latin Ruthenia, Russia.
  • Rutherfordium Symbol Rf, atomic number 104. A synthetic transition metal. Named after Ernest Rutherford, the physicist from New Zealand.
  • Seaborgium Symbol Sg, atomic number 106. A synthetic transition metal. Named after the American chemist Glenn Seaborg.
  • Technetium Symbol Tc, atomic number 43. A transition metal. Named from Greek tekhnetos, artificial.
  • Tungsten Symbol W, atomic number 74. A transition metal. Named from Swedish tung sten, heavy stone. The symbol W comes from Wolfram, 'wolf's foam' in Middle High German.
  • Yttrium Symbol Y, atomic number 39. A transition metal. Named after Ytterby, Sweden, where it was found. Terbium, erbium and ytterbium carry the same village's name.
  • Zirconium Symbol Zr, atomic number 40. A transition metal. Named after the mineral zircon, from Persian zargun, gold-hued.

How this list was compiled: Chemical elements: all 118 names, symbols, atomic numbers, group numbers, blocks, room-temperature phases, natural or synthetic origin and name origins from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements, checked 2026-09-18. Category chips follow group numbers in that table: alkali metals are group 1 without hydrogen, alkaline earth metals group 2, halogens group 17, noble gases group 18, lanthanides 57 to 71, actinides 89 to 103. Transition metals are groups 3 to 12, the 2011 IUPAC wording quoted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_metal (checked 2026-09-18), which notes that group 12 is sometimes left out; lutetium and lawrencium sit in group 3 in the table, so they carry their series and the transition metal tag. Tennessine and oganesson are tagged by group number only. Greek elements, Aristotle's qualities, Plato's solids, aether and the Japanese godai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element, checked 2026-09-18. Wuxing cycles, seasons, directions and colors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy), checked 2026-09-18. Seven planetary metals and the three primes of Paracelsus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemical_symbol, checked 2026-09-18. The 24 fantasy elements, the six blends and every story note are this site's own writing, not taken from any one game, book or show. Licence: own work