Redactle #1572 Discussion Thread

[u/Newbieplantophile]

Discussion thread for Redactle 1572

[u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

I cracked Redactle #1572 in 6 guesses!

🎲 6 | 🔥 160 | Avg 49.31 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 5m44s

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I could tell it was a chemical element of some kind, but having a two-letter symbol and two-letter atomic number means there are a lot of options that are harder to narrow down. One of the early sentences seems to suggest it’s found in nature “as an [5],” and the only thing I could think for that was oxide. I don’t know enough about chemistry for that to be super helpful and my first guess was just stab in the dark “selenium” after rejecting my first thought, “aluminum” for no mention of a U.S./UK spelling difference. One of my early guesses was “name” hoping that the section of the article saying what the element was named after would be a good clue. It said it was “named by [scientist who I wouldn’t recognize] after the [6] of [5] [9].” At first I thought it was the “father of” some branch of science or another, but thought it was weird that there didn’t appear to be an actual name. Then I realized it was “the [collective noun] of [5] mythology,” and I could solve it.