Fun Flag for Element 42: Mo

Missouri and Molybdenum have the same initials: an 'M' and an 'O.'  Acordingly, it a fun Mo flag can be made in the honor of MO.  Element 41, also known as Mo, a metal that any girl named Molly should appreciate. The Molly B. Denum flag maintains the horizontal tribar of Missouri, but the seal is modified.  Instead of 24 stars in a circle, we have 24 atoms in a circle.  Likewise, large test tubes replace the supporter bears.  The knight's helmet is now an elermeyer flask with blue some kind of blue chemical in it.  The circular yellow belt has not been modified.  On the compartment ribbon the name 'MOLYBDENUM' can be seen.  Finally in the inner circle, the atomic number is in blue, the standard atomic weight is in red, and the official IUPAC symbol is on the white area.

Here is the official Missouri flag for comparison.  Missouri's flag says a lot.  Missouri is a kind of jack of all trades of America.  It has a crescent to represent the south, a the bears to represent the west, the helmet to represent the East and stars to represent the north.

Fun Pa, Protactinium Flag - Element 91

What do you get when you put tin into an active pro-league category of elements?  Protactinium!  What a mouthful.  Strange thing about this element is that it uses the same letters for its abbreviation as does Pennsylvania, 'P' and an 'A.'  The flag has the year 1913 in the lower green field of the shield since this element was discovered in 1913.  In the middle is a flag of Germany to honor one of its fathers Oswald Helmuth Göhring while the other father was from Poland, Kasimir Fajans, who gets an double honor on the lower red ribbon in the compartment.  Also on the lower ribbon is the name of the element—Proctactinium.  In the upper part of the shield is the atomic number 91 and the two letter symbol Pa.  Instead of the North American Bald Eagle in the crest position, a white atom has taken its place.

Fun Element 27 Cobalt Flag - Co

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.

Fun Flag for Praseodymium - Element 59, Pr

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.

Fun Flag for Lanthanum - Element 57: La La Land

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.

Fun Flag for Meitnerium - Element 109: Mt

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.

Fun Flag for Nd - Element 60: Neodymium

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.