Playing with words sometimes leads to interesting results. Take the word DALE, for instance. Rearrange its
four letters. Presto! You have LEAD, one of the chemical elements.
In the same fashion, you can juggle the letters of GROAN around to spell ARGON, another chemical element. And LIVERS
can be transposed to give you SILVER, a third element.
There are scores of English words exhibiting the same property. Listed below are twenty-four of them. Each
one can be converted into a different chemical element simply by anagramming its letters.
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1. ADORN
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13. TENORING
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2. MISCUE
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14. UNMOBILE
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3. ECKLIN
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15. MUSCADIN
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4. ODIUMS
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16. SEMILUNE
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5. UMBRIA
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17. UNIMATIC
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6. IMBUER
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18. GUNNETTS
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7. UREMIC
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19. NEUROFIL
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8. GEONYX
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20. ANTINOMY
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9. HUMIDOR
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21. MULTIRULE
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10. RACINES
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22. UNIGRAMME
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11. INHUMER
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23. UMBERLIKE
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12. BURMITE
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24. MUNICHETTE
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