Names of elements
C
What is Carbon?
The vertical columns. There are eight of them. They include elements with similar properties.
What are the groups.
6
What is carbon?
Sodium
What is Na+
The smallest part of matter.
What is an atom?
H
What is Hydrogen?
The type of elements on the left of the zigzag line.
What are metals?
5
What is Beryllium?
Chlorine
What is Cl-
Something which consists of only one type of atom.
What is an element?
He
What is Helium?
The type of element on the right of the zigzag line.
What are non-metals?
22
What is argon?
Magnesium
What is Mg2+
A bond which shares electrons
What is a covalent bond?
Na
What is Sodium?
The name for the horizontal rows.
What are periods?
61
What is silver?
Nitrogen
N3-
A particle which is charged because it has lost or gained an electron.
What is an ion?
Es
What is Einsteinium?
The metals that can form more than one ion.
What are transition metals?
148
What is plutonium?
Argon
There isn't one!
A structure with an alternating pattern of positive and negative ions.
What is an ionic lattice?