Both the state of Colorado and element 27 share the letters in their abbreviations: 'C' & 'O.' Consequently, the fun Cobalt flag is necessary. Co or CO can refer to Cobalt or Colorado respectively. The Co flag is based upon the CO flag but the colours are different. Co is famous for being blue, thus three shades of blue make up the Co flag. The letter C within the flag is dark blue, the middle bar is cyan, and the upper and lower bars are medium blue.
Did you know when you write to someone in Puerto Rico the abbreviation has the same letters as element 59, Parseodymium. Yes, both use a letter 'P' and a letter 'R.' Consequently this opens up the Puerto Rico to a fun elemental 59 flag for Praseodymium. Try to say that three times really fast! The only difference between the Pr flag and PR is, instead of single star, we have a single atom.
Louisiana and Lanthanum have the same letters for an abbreviation, namely the letter 'L' and the letter 'A.' Consequently this opens up this element for a fun LA or La flag to represent this element. In the banner of the flag you can see its abbreviation followed by the year of its discovery in 1839, then its name, and finally its atomic number. All atoms with 57 behave alike, but a variation in neutrons changes its behavior just a little.
Replacing the pelicans are white atom drawings. Also three red electrons on the mother-atom represent the three droplets of blood from the official Louisiana state flag. You can see the Louisiana state flag for comparison.
Lanthanum is the leader for elements with two names: Lanthanide or Rare Earths but they are really not that rare. Most scientists will tell you that in one gobble of parrot like memery. So in essence Lanthanides are oxymoronic, not really rare, rare earth elements are sometimes called Lanthanides or Rare Earth Elements, depending of the tide of the scientists bladder. But seriously folks, elements 57 unto 70 and sometimes 71 are a part of La La Land.
Montana and Meitnerium have the same two letters in their abbreviation: an 'M' and a 'T'. However with Montana's abbreviation both letters are capitalized, but for Meitnerium only the first letter is capitalized. Nonetheless, this congruence of letters may make this element a little bit for fun to learn for Americans and Americans from Montana.
On the normal Montana flag the ribbon reads "Oro Y Plata." But for the Fun Mt flag, the date 1982 is written in reference to Meitnerium's discovery. Ten years later this element 109 was officially named Meitnerium. In the central Spanish 'AND' spot is the two letter abbreviation, Mt. On the left side of the ribbon is the atomic number of this element, which indicates the number of protons.
This is one of the few elements named after a female scientist: Dr. Meitner, Lise. She was originally born in Austria 1878 and lived unto year 1868. She was a part of that special generation to transcend the Civil War Era technologies unto the Space Age. She also was the Atomic-Jedi Master to China. Her Padawan leaner was Kan-Chang Wan — it does not get any more Star Warzian like that that! In fact her apprentice KC Wan was about to discover neutrons, but she was unwilling to risk the resources for young KC Wan's idea about neutrons. Consequently, China just missing out on discovering the neutron! Instead another Englishman nabbed that oh so precious honor — James Chadwick. So no matter, Meitner was a tour de force in the early hay days of science was witness of technology transformation from cowboys to spacemen, or rather, from cowgirls to spacewomen.
The Fun Flag for Neodymium, element Nd, is based upon the flag for ND: North Dakota. Instead of the North American Bald Eagle, there is an atom in the center with green electrons. Also the bottom fancy banner has the name of the element instead of North Dakota. The ribbon up top also has the date of discovery and the Nd abbreviation. The shield is also a little different. In the chief area is the atomic number 60, which is the number of protons that gives this atom its particular properties. In the lower field is the flag of Austria where this element was uncovered by Carl Auer von Welsbach.
Thus if you know the abbreviation for North Dakota, you now have a fun way of learning about element 60. For comparison, the flag of North Dakota is to the left. It is nearly a federal seal flag, since imagery indicates a strong symbolism for the federal government.
The fun Mendeleev Dmitri element flag is based upon the flag of Maryland since both element 101 and the 7th state have the same letters for their abbreviations. The state has both letters capitalized, but the element has the second letter in lower case as in MD vs Md. Nonetheless, this should make learning one of the coolest elements easier to learn.
Instead of the red and white crosses, there are red and white atom drawings. Likewise the vertical bars have been replaced with radioactive symbols, which is the three leaved foil.
Element 13 coincidentally has an abbreviation that matches the state of Alabama. Alabama is AL while Aluminum is Al; there is a slight difference since element has a lower case L while Alabama has an upper case L.
The cosmic coincidence is that, scratch that, the QUANTUM COINCIDENCE is that Aluminum's number is 13 and 13 atoms on the flag of Alabama echo of the flag of the South. If you didn't know the Battle Flag of the Confederacy had 13 stars in a similar position.
Also the funny thing about the "Fun Aluminum AL flag" is that an atom on the periodic table of scientific elements was almost named after Alabama. A scientist from Alabama, Fred Allison, thought he discovered the atom with the atomic number of 85. He was wrong, but a few periodic tables were made that included the symbol 'Ab' for Alabamine for element 85. Perhaps he was right in a quantum-Mandela sort of way in another universe? Thus the key to traveling into another dimension is to use laser crystals made up of Astatine or Alabamine, depending on your originating universe. Thus in the the other universe, element 85 in indeed called Alabamine and Astatine is the false name for the this element. There are other rumors that there is a third quantum-worm hole where element 85 is called Alabanium, and was discovered by a Albanian scientist.
You can see other 'maiden names' of elements that were changed by the high priests and priestess of IUPAC. Element 41 was once called by Columbium and represented by Cb, now called Niobium or Nb. Likewise element 43 was represented by Ma which was Masurium, now called Technetium or Tc.
