it's elemental......

ok, so 7th grade science has moved on, for the most part, from the research question to the periodic table of elements.......and so we had a rousing game of name that element from the abbreviation over dinner........and i was pleasantly surprised that my spouse and i made a decent showing......when one combines the elements with nutritive qualities with those made into jewelry and bike parts or womd..or inert gases..........the only ones we didn't know fell into the other category.....which we concluded were not worth knowing....i am joking of, course.......because they must be memorized....but to the 49/50ish crowd.....if they couldn't be recalled from college chem classes over a 25ish year span......then they must not have been all that important...........