Properties
Medical Applications
Electrical Applications
Complex Ions
Fun Facts/ Misc.
100
Transition metals share similar properties both within a given _____ or within a given ______.
What is a period or a group?
100
Arsenic compounds are used to treat ______.
What is Leukemia?
100
This highly conductive transition metal is the one most commonly used in general electrical applications.
What is Copper (Cu)?
100
This component of a complex ion is added to a central metallic ion.
What is a ligand?
100
This transition metal is used to coat the back of most mirrors, due to its high reflectivity.
What is Silver (Ag)?
200
These metals are conductive to both heat and _____.
What is electricity?
200
Antimony has displayed anti-_____ activity.
What is tumor?
200
Despite increased cost, highly efficient solar panels are often used on ______, due to the need for a continuous supply of energy.
What are spacecraft?
200
This type of bond describes the interaction between the exterior components of a complex ion and the central metallic ion.
What is a coordinate covalent bond?
200
Silver is used to produce _______ paper.
What is photographic?
300
CuCl and CuCl2 represent the ability of these metals to have more than one ______ state.
What is oxidation?
300
Of the three transition metals, ______ was first used as a treatment for tumors.
What is Bismuth?
300
This material is an insulator at low temperatures and a conductor at high temperatures.
What is Vanadium Dioxide (VO2)?
300
This large value describes the spontaneity of the stepwise formation of complex ions.
What is a complex-formation equilibrium constant?
300
Complexes of iron ______ and store oxygen in the body.
What is transport?
400
This physical characteristic distinguishes most solutions containing transition metals from other solutions.
What is color?
400
This metal has been used as a bacteriostatic and used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
What is gold (Au)?
400
This ability of transition metals explains their trend toward high conductivity.
What is the ability to hold loosely to their electrons?
400
The absence of electrons in these orbitals alllows for metallic ions to form complexes.
What are D orbitals?
400
Cobalt is found in biomolecules such as ______.
What is Vitamin B-12?
500
Most transition metals are ____-magnetic (as opposed to diamagnetic).
What is para-?
500
This is the meaning the word antineoplastic.
What is anticancer? (Controlling and/or preventing cancer are also acceptable answers)
500
This transition metal can be used to make p-type semiconductors when silicon is doped using it.
What is Aluminum (Al)?
500
This type of complex ion exists in small proportions at any given moment during complex ion formation due to the step-wise process.
What is the intermediate complex ion?
500
Iron is used to produce steel. Name 2 of the 4 additives (other transition metals) that can be used to reinforce steel.
What are chromium, vanadium, cobalt, and/or manganese?
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