Clue #6

[fishmini]

Au is 
the symbol

If you read
off that
table

The colonel
knows this

He has 
proved quite 
able

[handigeharry]

Au is gold, clearly points to the periodic table, but not sure which colonel we are looking for Nor do I see yet what the last stanza adds.

[matthew]

New to this hunt just leaving ideas


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarium

The mineral itself was earlier named after a Russian mine official, Colonel Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, who thereby became the first person to have a chemical element named after him, albeit indirectly.

Or the outlandish, what if Colonel Sanders? KFC = Potassium, Flourine, Carbon.

[thetreasurehunter]

AU is 79

KFC- 19 - 9- 6


COL can be found as CO L or C O L -either 27 53 or 6 8 53


These numbers could give letters in the clue-s

Which ones to use?

[matthew]

sometimes you can use the weights as codes as well. not sure if that is needed for this puzzle.