Basic Periodic table facts
Properties of families
Elements
Families and periods
Random periodic table questions
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Who designed the current Periodic table of elements
The Russian Dimitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table of elements in 1871.
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What are the properties of Transition metals
Are very strong and usually stable, and have 1-2 valence electrons
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What is a element
A element is a pure substance that cannot be broken down by any means (chemical or physical)
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How many element groups are there
There is 18 groups on the periodic table, they are vertical lines on the table
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This is Carbon's atomic number.
What is 12.011
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What shows the number of protons of the element
Atomic number shows the number of protons in an element, it is located on top of the chemical symbol
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True or False - Metals lack luster.
What is false?
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Which of the following listed substances are not elements Gold - Water - Oxygen - Kryptonite - Einsteinium
Water and Kryptonite are not elements, water is a compound formed of Hydrogen and Oxygen and kryptonite is a movie crystal that can kill Superman, Gold, Oxygen and Einsteinium are all known elements
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What are periods on the periodic tables
Periods are the horizontal lines of the periodic table and show the number of valence electrons in the element
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This is the the meaning of something that repeats in a certain pattern.
What is the meaning of periodic?
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What are elements 57-70 and 89-102 and why are they located under the table
They are the Rare earth metals, the reason they are located where they are is the fact there is not enough space to put them with the other elements.
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This is true of solid nonmetals.
What is they can easily be broken?
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What are the number of vertical colums on the periodic table?
There are 18 of these and are called groups.
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This is the symbol for Argon.
What is Ar?
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These were the elemnts that Ancient Greeks thought were the four basic elements.
What are earth, fire, air and water?
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How many elements are in the periodic table
118 known elements are found on the current table, of which 102 occur naturally
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This is the zigzag line.
What is the line on the periodic table that separates the metals from the nonmetals?
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What are the first 10 elements of the periodic table
Hydrogen - Helium - Lithium - Beryllium - Boron - Carbon - Nitrogen - Oxygen - Fluorine - Neon are the first 10 elements on the table
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This is the symbol for Rn.
What is Radon?
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These are the shortened name for elements.
What are chemical symbols?
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What are the the 3 metal groups
Metals, metalloids and non-metals are the three main groups on the table, metals are the largest in amount with metalloids the least
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What are the differences between non-metals, metalloids and metals
non-metals are usually gases and are not good conductors, metals are malleable and good conductors and metalloids an have properties of both and are semi-conductors
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Which element of the following does not exist - Einsteinium - Augustium - Seaborgium - Rutherfordium - Mendelevium - Californium - Bohrium
Augustium is a made up element , the others do exist Bohrium - Named after Charles Bohr (element 107) Einsteinium - Named after Albert Einstein (element 99) Californium - Named after California (element 98) Mendelevium-Named after Dimitri Mendeleev (element 101) Seaborgium - Named after Glenn T. Seaborg (element 106)
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Helium, Neon, Argon and Xenon
What are examples of gases?
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This is the atomic number for hydrogen.
What is 1?
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