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This is the atomic number for element Ne.
What is 10?
A row going across the periodic table.
What is a period?
Scientist who created the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
These elements are generally the best conductors of heat and electricity.
What are metals?
What is lithium (Li)?
This is the type of element Ca is (metal, nonmetal, metalloid).
What is a metal?
A column going down the periodic table.
What is a group?
The word periodic means that something does this in a pattern.
What is repeats?
This property means a metal can be pressed or hammered into a new shape without breaking.
What is malleability/being malleable?
This element is used in bicycles.
What is scandium (Sc)?
Chemical symbol for chlorine.
What is Cl?
The amount of periods on the periodic table of elements.
What is 7?
The modern periodic table is arranged in order of this number.
What is the atomic number?
This property means a metal can be pulled into wires.
What is ductility?
This element is a major part of chlorophyll.
What is magnesium (Mg)?
What are the halogens?
The amount of groups on the periodic table of elements.
What is 18?
An element's atomic number tells you this about their atoms.
What is the amount of protons?
These elements are usually dull, poor conductors, and can be brittle. They are usually gas or liquid at room temperature.
What are nonmetals?
The only two elements that are liquid at room temperature.
What are mercury and bromine?
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?
Elements in the same group tend to have similar properties because they have a similar number of these outer particles.
What are valence electrons?
Mendeleev originally arranged the elements according to this property rather than atomic number.
What is atomic mass?
This type of element is found along the staircase and can conduct electricity, but not as well as metals.
What are metalloids?
These three elements are magnetic.
What are iron, nickel, and cobalt?