Chemical Elements
by Dmitri Borgmann

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.

1.   ADORN	13.   TENORING
2.   MISCUE	14.   UNMOBILE
3.   ECKLIN	15.   MUSCADIN
4.   ODIUMS	16.   SEMILUNE
5.   UMBRIA	17.   UNIMATIC
6.   IMBUER	18.   GUNNETTS
7.   UREMIC	19.   NEUROFIL
8.   GEONYX	20.   ANTINOMY
9.   HUMIDOR	21.   MULTIRULE
10.   RACINES	22.   UNIGRAMME
11.   INHUMER	23.   UMBERLIKE
12.   BURMITE	24.   MUNICHETTE

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