Symbols and Names
The element with symbol He
What is helium?
This group is referred to as the halogens
What is Group 17?
This group of metals is known to generally react violently with water.
What is the alkali metals?
An atom of this element is at the center of all chlorophyll molecules.
What is magnesium?
This country-named radioactive element is commonly used in one type of smoke detector.
What is americium?
It refers to copper
What is Cu?
The name that Group 1 commonly gets called is this.
What is the alkali metals?
This group of elements is unreactive in many circumstances.
What are the noble gases?
This element has the highest boiling point.
What is tungsten?
This Group 2 element is used to create green colors in fireworks.
What is barium?
The element with symbol Sb
What is antimony?
The noble gases occupy this group.
What is Group 18?
This Group 14 element is commonly used in computer chips since it's a semiconductor.
What is silicon?
This element is incapable of freezing under normal pressures.
This radioactive metal is the world's most commonly used medical tracer, used in tens of millions of procedures worldwide.
What is technetium?
Lead has this symbol
What is Pb?
The part of the periodic table that starts with element #89 and ends with element #103 is called this.
What is the actinides (or actinoids)?
Indium belongs to this category of metals.
What is a post-transition metal?
A rod of this element defines the kilogram.
What is platinum?
This element is the only one named after a currently living person (as of October 2024).
What is oganesson?
The element with symbol W
What is tungsten?
Group 15, containing nitrogen and phosphorus, is called this by IUPAC.
What is the pnictogens?
The reactivity of this group of elements with water generally depends on the temperature of the water.
What is the alkaline earth metals?
This alkali metal isotope is the most commonly used timekeeper in good atomic clocks.
What is cesium-133?
This element is a component in the acid referred to as the "King of Chemicals" since it is used in many chemical industrial processes. The name of the acid references one of this element's polyatomic ions.
What is sulfur?