Metals
Metals (cont.)
Non-metals
Metalloids
Misc.
100
Name the element: Symbol: Ta Atomic number: 73 Atomic weight: 180.95 g This metal was discovered by Anders G. Ekeberg in 1802, in Uppsala, Sweden.
What is tantalum?
100
Name the element: Symbol: Ni Atomic number: 28 Atomic weight: 58.71 g This metal was first isolated by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, in 1751.
What is nickel?
100
Name the element: Symbol: O Atomic number: 8 Atomic weight: 15.999 g This non-metal (gas) is essential to breathe, and it is needed to burn something.
What is oxygen?
100
Name this element: Symbol: B Atomic number: 5 Atomic weight: 10.811 g This metalloid is a good conductor at high temperature.
What is boron?
100
Name the element: Symbol: K Atomic number: 19 Atomic weight: 39.09 g This metal helps plants grow, and is an important part of fertilizers.
What is potassium?
200
Name the element: Symbol: Ir Atomic number: 77 Atomic weight: 192.2 g This metal, in powder form, is a known irritant and is a fire hazard.
What is iridium?
200
Name the element: Symbol: Ho Atomic number: 67 Atomic weight: 164.9 g In moist air and higher temperatures, this metal quickly forms a yellowish oxide layer.
What is holmium?
200
Name the element: Symbol: C Atomic number: 6 Atomic weight: 12.011 g This non-metal does not react with hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, and chlorine.
What is carbon?
200
Name this element: Symbol: Si Atomic number: 14 Atomic weight: 28.0855 g This metalloid is the most common metalloid.
What is silicon?
200
Name the element: Symbol: Am Atomic number: 95 Atomic weight: 243 g This metal is fissile, which means it can break into smaller fragments if it is bombarded by neutrons.
What is americium?
300
Name the element: Symbol: Au Atomic number: 79 Atomic weight: 196.9655 g This metal is generally found in nature as nuggets or small grains.
What is gold?
300
Name the element: Symbol: Hg Atomic number: 80 Atomic weight: 200.59 g This metal is named after the Roman God of speed and mobility.
What is mercury?
300
Name this element: Symbol: Rn Atomic number: 86 Atomic weight: 222 g In 1900, when this non metal was discovered by Friedrich Ernst Dom, it was the fifth radioactive element.
What is radon?
300
Name the element: Symbol: Ge Atomic number: 32 Atomic weight: 72.59 g At room temperature, this metalloid is a brittle, silvery-white metalloid, with a diamond like structure.
What is germanium?
300
Name the element: Symbol: Lr Atomic number: 103 Atomic weight: 262 This metal was discovered in the United States, in 1961, by Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon Larsh, and Robert M. Catimer.
What is lawrencium?
400
Name the element: Symbol: Zn Atomic number: 30 Atomic weight: 65.37 g After iron, aluminum, and copper, this metal is the fourth most common metal used.
What is zinc?
400
Name the element: Symbol: W Atomic number: 74 Atomic weight: 183.85 g This metal was discovered from scheelite in 1781, by Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
What is tungsten?
400
Name this element: Symbol: F Atomic number: 9 Atomic weight: 18.998403 g This non-metal is a very reactive, poisonous, pale, and yellowish brown gas.
What is fluorine?
400
Name the element: Symbol: As Atomic number: 33 Atomic weight: 74.9216 g This metalloid is often used in pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, to kill insects, bacteria, and fungi.
What is arsenic?
400
Name the element: Symbol: Xe Atomic number: 54 Atomic weight: 131.29 g This non-metal is a colorless, odorless, and heavy noble gas.
What is xenon?
500
Name the elements: Part 1: Symbol: Co Atomic number: 27 Atomic weight: 58.9332 g This metal was discovered in 1735, by the Swedish chemist, Georg Brandt. Part 2: Symbol: Fr Atomic number: 87 Atomic Weight: 233 g Only 10-30gms of this metal exists in the entire earth's crust.
What is cobalt? What is francium?
500
Name the elements: Part 1: Symbol: Nd Atomic number: 60 Atomic weight: 144.2 g This metal is a rare earth metal, used in solid state lasers. It can be found in various forms, including, Halides, Oxides, Sulfides, and Nitrides. Part 2: Symbol: Cs Atomic number: 55 Atomic weight: 132.9054 g This metal is used in photo electric cells to help create clean energy.
What is neodymium? What caesium?
500
Name the elements: Part 1: Symbol: N Atomic number: 7 Atomic weight: 14.0067 This non-metal was discovered by the chemist and physician Daniel Rutherford, in 1772. Part 2: Symbol: P Atomic number: 15 Atomic weight: 30.9738 g This non-metal is a part of DNA, and the RNA in cells.
What is nitrogen? What is phosphorous?
500
Name the elements: Part 1: Symbol: Po Atomic number: 84 Atomic weight: 210 g This metalloid was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie, in 1898. Part 2: Symbol: Atomic number: 85 Atomic weight: 210 g In 1940, Dale R. Corson, Keneth Rozz Mackenzie, and Emily Segre, worked together to produce this metalloid.
What is polonium? What is astatine?
500
Name the elements: Part 1: Symbol: In Atomic number: 49 Atomic weight: 114.82 g This metal has a color of silvery lustrous grey. Part 2: Symbol: Ga Atomic number: 31 Atomic weight: 69.72 g This metal has a boiling point of 2204 °C.
What is indium? What is gallium?
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