We commonly make wires out of this element.
50 bonus points for chemical symbol.
What is copper?
Cu
100
These letters are abbreviations for the element.
What is the chemical symbol?
100
This is a way to identify an element.
What is a property?
100
This is where the largest grouping of elements on the Periodic Table, the Transition Metals, are located.
Where is the middle of the Periodic Table?
100
He invented the Periodic table of the elements.
50 bonus points for saying his name in a Russian accent.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleyev?
200
This nonmetal is used in colorful lights.
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What is neon?
Ne
200
This number identifies the number of protons in an element's nucleus.
What is the atomic number?
200
It is malleable, ductile, and a good conductor. Therefore it is part of this major category of elements.
What is a metal?
200
This is the year the Periodic Table was presented
What is the year 1869?
200
A pure substance that cannot be separated into simpler substances physically or chemically.
[This might be a trick question]
What is an element?
--Nope, not a trick.
300
This element is used in computer chips.
Sean is not allowed to answer this one.
(just kidding)
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What is Silicon?
Si
300
If an element has 9 electrons in its electron cloud, it has this many protons in its nucleus.
300 bonus points if you can tell me how many neutrons are in its nucleus.
What is the number 9?
10. (the element is Flourine)
300
This element is not shiny, and a poor conductor. Therefore, it is probably part of this major category of elements.
What is a nonmetal?
300
This is one of the elements that Mendeleyev predicted the existence of.
What is gallium/germanium/scandium?
300
Supposedly, the Philosopher's stone could transform this element into this element.
100 Bonus points for chemical symbols.
What is Lead to Gold?
Pb-Au
400
This smelly nonmetal is found in mineral water.
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What is sulfur?
s
400
Rounding this number to the nearest whole equals the mass of the element's most common isotope.
What is the atomic mass?
400
Another name for a semiconductor.
What is a metalloid?
400
This is where the name "Periodic Table" comes from.
What is a repeating, or periodic property?
400
This NONMETAL is commonly used in pencils.
What is graphite?
Yep, I just caps locked NONMETAL to throw you off...
500
This element has been used as a pesticide, gasoline additive, flame retardant, and for photography, among other things.
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What is Bromine?
Br
500
These are the names of five of the 8 categories of elements THAT ARE MENTIONED ON THE PERIODIC TABLE.
What are alkali metals, alkali earth metals, transition metals, other metals, other nonmetals, halogens, noble gases, and rare earth metals?
500
These are 7 different characteristic properties by which elements could be classified.
What is boiling point, melting point, density, reactivity with acid, color, texture, hardness, texture, reactivity with oxygen, flammability, etc.
500
These are the two categories of rare earth metals that were added to the table after it was published.
What are the lathanide series and the Actinide series?
500
This category would be the least appropriate choice for making a container that won't shatter when dropped.