Alkali Metals
Alkaline Earth Metals
Transition Metals
Non-Metals
Other Metals
100
Found in table salt and other food. It has a silvery white color. Discovered in 1807. Used for medicine and agriculture.
What is sodium?
100
Discovered in 1808. Used to strengthen bones. Found in vitamins, milk and other drinks. Comes from chalk, limestone or marble. Has a silvery white color.
What is Calcium?
100
Discovered in 3000 B.C. Used for electronics, jewlerey and coins. Comes from the crust of the earth and copper ores. Has a gold color.
What is Gold?
100
Discovered in 1774. Supports life. Comes from trees. Doesn't have a color.
What is Oxygen?
100
Discovery is unknown. Used for solder and sheilding against radiation, and batteries. Comes from galena. Has a blueish color.
What is Lead?
200
Discovered in 1817. Used in batteries, ceramics, lubricants. Has a silvery color. Least dense metal.
What is Lithium?
200
Discovered in 1808. Used for airplanes and missiles. Comes from the sea water. Has a silvery white color.
What is Magnesium?
200
Discoverey is unknown. Used for electrical conductor, jewlery, coins and plumbing. Comes from chalcopyrite, coveline, and chalcosine. Has a red/orange color.
What is Copper?
200
Discovery is unknown. Used for steel, filters. Helps keeps plants alive. Has a blackish/gray color if in graphite form. If in diamond form it has no color.
What is Carbon?
200
Discoverey is unknown. Used for coating steel cans. Comes from cassiterite ore. Has a white color.
What is Tin?
300
Discovered in 1807. Used in glass and soap. Has a silvery white color. Comes from minerals.
What is Potassium?
300
Discovered in 1798. Used for spacecrafts, missiles, and aircrafts. Comes from beryl, chrysoberyl. Has a gray color.
What is Beryllium?
300
Discovery unknown. Used for jewlerey. photography, and as an electrical conductor. Comes from ores. Has a silvery color.
What is Silver?
300
Discovery is unknown. Used for matches, gun powder and medicine. Occurs freely in nature. Has a yellow color.
What is Sulfur?
300
Discovered in 1825. Used for airplanes and soda cans. Comes from bauxite. Has a silver color.
What is Aluminum?
400
Discovered in 1939. Has no known uses. Comes from decay of actinium. Has a metallic color.
What is Francium?
400
Discovered in 1808. Used for medical applications. Comes from barytine, and whiterite. Has a silver color.
What is Barium
400
Discovered in 1774. Used for steel, batteries and ceramics. Comes from pyrolusite, psilomelane, and rhodochrosite. Has a silvery/gray color.
What is Manganese?
400
Discovered in 1669. Used for fertilizers and detergents. Comes from phosphate rock. Has a white color.
What is phosphorous?
400
Discovered in 1875. Used for lasers. Comes from bauxite, germanite and coal. Has a white/silver color.
What is Gallium?
500
Discovered in 1861. Used for catalysts and photocells. Comes from lithium production. Has a silvery white color.
What is Robidium?
500
Discovered in 1790. Used for flares, fireworks and crimson color. Comes form celestite, and strontianite. Has a yellowish color.
What is Strontium?
500
Discovered in 1801. Has no known uses. Comes from columbite. Has a white color.
What is Niobium?
500
Discovered in 1817. Used for photoelectric cells and TV cameras. Comes from refining of lead, copper, and nickel. Has a gray color.
What is Selenium?
500
Discovered in 1861. Used for rat adn ant poisons, and detecting infrared radiation. Comes from crookesite, hutchinsonite, lorandite. Has a blueish color.
What is Thallium?
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