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Groups
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Periods
Table
Basics
metals, nonmetals, and metalloids
element detective
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This is the atomic number for element Ne.

What is 10?

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A row going across the periodic table.

What is a period?

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Scientist who created the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?


100

These elements are generally the best conductors of heat and electricity.

What are metals?

100
This element is used in batteries.

What is lithium (Li)?

200

This is the type of element Ca is (metal, nonmetal, metalloid).

What is a metal?

200

A column going down the periodic table.

What is a group?

200

The word periodic means that something does this in a pattern.

What is repeats?

200

This property means a metal can be pressed or hammered into a new shape without breaking.

What is malleability/being malleable?

200

This element is used in bicycles.

What is scandium (Sc)?

300

Chemical symbol for chlorine.

What is Cl?

300

The amount of periods on the periodic table of elements.

What is 7?

300

The modern periodic table is arranged in order of this number.

What is the atomic number?

300

This property means a metal can be pulled into wires.

What is ductility?

300

This element is a major part of chlorophyll.

What is magnesium (Mg)?

400
Element family for Group 17.

What are the halogens?

400

The amount of groups on the periodic table of elements.

What is 18?

400

An element's atomic number tells you this about their atoms.

What is the amount of protons?

400

These elements are usually dull, poor conductors, and can be brittle. They are usually gas or liquid at room temperature.

What are nonmetals?

400

The only two elements that are liquid at room temperature.

What are mercury and bromine?

500

Category of an element that is shiny, conducts heat and electricity well, and can be hammered into a new shape without breaking.

What is a metal?

500

Elements in the same group tend to have similar properties because they have a similar number of these outer particles.

What are valence electrons?

500

Mendeleev originally arranged the elements according to this property rather than atomic number.

What is atomic mass?

500

This type of element is found along the staircase and can conduct electricity, but not as well as metals.

What are metalloids?

500

These three elements are magnetic.

What are iron, nickel, and cobalt?

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