Abbrev.
Post-Transition
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Your Questions
Your Questions
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This element has the abbreviation of “Cu.”
What is copper?
100
You can chew this like bubblegum.
What is Indium?
100
She won two Nobels in two different fields; the only scientist ever to do so.
Who is Marie Curie? (the GOAT)
100
This Alkaline Earth Metal is great for bones.
What is calcium?
100
This is the first element on the periodic table, and the most abundant.
What is hydrogen?
200
This element is “Ag.”
What is silver?
200
This element can melt in your hand.
What is gallium?
200
Mass divided by volume is the formula for this.
What is density?
200
Metalloids are amphoteric, meaning they act as both these and these.
What are acids and bases?
200
There are this many unknown elements.
What is nine?
300
This is the abbreviation for Sodium.
What is Na?
300
You can use this in the kitchen to wrap food with.
What is aluminum? (or tin)
300
Darlene Hoffman discovered this element, naming it after her mentor.
What is Seaborgium (Sg)?
300
This post-transition metal melts in your hand, at a paltry 85º.
What is gallium?
300
Elemental bromine is this color.
What is reddish-brown?
400
The letter W signifies this dense transition metal.
What is Tungsten?
400
This was discovered by the Curies. Marie named it after her homeland.
What is Polonium? (Named for Poland.)
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We associate this element with its green glow.
What is radium?
400
This group of elements are used many human-made products, such as magnets, LED lighs, glass manufacturing, and motors.
What are lanthanoids?
400
This transition metal is radioactive and doesn't occur naturally.
What is Rutherfordium?
500
Mt was named to honor her, "a physicist who never lost her humanity."
Who is Lise Meitner? (Meitnerium)
500
Until 1978, this was used in paint and pencils.
What is lead?
500
This group of colorless, odorless elements rarely, if ever, react with other chemicals.
What are the Noble Gases?
500
This post-transition metal is used in phone screens, and is so soft you can bite it--but don't! It's toxic.
What is Indium?
500
He was the first to isolate the element Thorium, and many of the metalloids.
Who is Jöns Jacob Berzelius?