The Fun Copper Flag is based upon the flags of Cyprus, which is where the word copper is derived from. The copper and green colours are based upon the flag of modern day Cyprus, as is the olive branch. Likewise the lions are based upon the old British colonial ensign. Finally red is also taken from the Northern Cyprus flag as well.
The three lions symbolize that this element was known to the ancients, as it was in Africa, Asia, and Europe before the rise of the Roman Empire or Great Walls of China. Under the green lion is the Egyptian word for Copper, under the red lion is the Chinese word for copper, and finally under the copper lion is the English word for Copper. Just above the olive branches is the atomic Z number for copper, 29.
The Fun Flag for Manganese combines the colours of Sweden and Greece. This element was articulated in scientific detail by a Swedish person, but it gets its namesake from the region of Greece known as Magnesia. Also note that Magnesium-Element 12 is also named after this special region of Greece.
The Fun Hafnium Flag combines the flags of Denmark, the Netherlands, and Hungary. Reason being this element was discovered in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1922 by a scientist from the Netherlands, Dirk Coster, and another from Hungary, Georg von Hevesy.
Hafnium gets its name from the Latin name of Copenhagen, consequently the Danish banner makes up "Haff of the Hafnium" Flag. Coincidentally the flags of the Netherlands can be seen on the fly side, while the Hungarian flag is on the left.
Note that Hafnium is the Latin name for Copenhagen and this element will soon turn 100 in 2022.
The Fun Flag for Rhenium is based upon the colours and original German provincial coat of arms of the woman whom co-discovered this element, Ida Tacke. Ida Tacke was born in Rhine Province whose coat of arms feature a white wavy bend on green, as is the winding river of the Rhine. But for this fun flag, they serve as the background while the central shield colours are derived from modern Germany's flag. The other scientists who co-discovered this element were from different parts of Germany. Only Ida Tacke was born in a province named after the Rhine River, which is where this element gets its namesake, Rhenium - Element 75.
Not to be confused with element Rh, for Rhodium, which gets its name after the colour of a rose, assuming a red rose.
The fun flag for Indium, Element 49, is based upon the old Colonial German Flag which was once a part of the East Indies, or rather the Spanish East Indies. This flag reminds us that Germans were responsible for the discovery of this new material in our universe: Ferdinand Reich andHieronymous Theodor Richter. By luck, both of these men lived in what was to become East Germany, whence a small fraction of the East Indies were united with Germany. But these scientists lived long before WWII and WWI. They lived in during the heart of the Imperial Age of Queen Victoria.
Official Flag of German New Guinea
Although the basis of this flag comes from the flag of German New Guinea, part of the East Indies were a part of Germany when Mr. Richter was alive.
The Central Coat of arms pays homage to the flag of modern India, where this element, by serendipity gets its namesake. Since this element was discovered by its indigo blue line spectrum, it was called Indium, and at the time much of the world's indigo was made in India, and coincidentally Germany bonded with East India shortly after the discovery of Indium. But remember only Mr. Richter, who co-discovered Indium, was able to live to see Germany's frontiers expand into fringes of India, or rather Spanish East India, via the Caroline and Mariana Islands.
An atom with Indium's Z number is present on a green field. 49 indicates that Indium has 49 protons in its nucleus, which gives it its chemical properties.
A fun flag for Gallium is aligned by providence, as it was created on the first day of the Year of the Rooster 2017. Element 31 is a very special element. It is a metal but it is a metal that is sensitive to the human touch. Most metals are indifferent to human contact, but Gallium liquidates when it is touched by human hands, kinda' making one feel like a superhero. This property of human touch to transformation is due to a unique melting point that is just below the human body temperature, at 85.58° F. It's just one of those cosmic coincidences or rather an amazing atomic alignment.
Gallium is associated with the Gauls, where its namesake originates, thanks to Lecoq de Boisbaudran, who discovered it in 1875. As the ancient French were one in one with Guals.
Since the rooster has become an unofficial national emblem for France, we have a rooster in the center of the coat of arms on the fun flag for Gallium. It is a French Rooster of blue, white, and red. Also present is the atomic Z number for Gallium - 31 and a fleur-de-lis. The background is an homage to the French fleur-de-lis as a Fleur-de-Atoms. The modern flag of France is also hidden in the tail feathers.
Dubnium is an element named after Dubna, Russia in Moscow. The fun flag for this element has a modified coat of arms based upon the official Coat of Arms for Dubna, Russia. The background is a modified Moscow, Regional Flag. Like the Moscovium Flag, St. George, has been changed into a scientist wearing a blue radiation hazard suit, and the dragon has been transformed into a Dubnium atom. The scientist in the hazard suit is supposed to be Yuri Oganesson. Dubna is a city within Moscow Province, not Moscow City-Proper.
