Vocabulary
A naturally occurring rock from which a useful metal or mineral is recovered.
What is an ore?
What is conductivity, malleability, and ductility?
Do unreactive or highly reactive metals form ores in the Earth's crust?
What is highly reactive?
How many valence electrons do alkaline-earth metals have?
What is two?
The only metal not solid at room temperature
What is Mercury?
ability to be drawn into wires
What is ductile?
The force of attraction between the metal atoms and the surrounding sea of electrons in the metal.
What is metallic bonding?
What is nonrenewable?
What is sodium?
The best conductor of electricity.
What is silver?
The process of converting an ore into a free, uncombined metal.
What is reduction?
How many shells contain valence electrons in transition metals?
What is two?
Are alkali metals or alkaline-earth metals more reactive?
What are Alkali metals?
How many valence electrons do alkali metals have?
What is one?
Copper is used in electrical wiring because of what physical property?
What is ductility?
ability to be hammered into sheets
What is malleable?
What two elements combine with metals to create a majority of ores in the Earth's crust?
What is oxygen and silicon?
The ability to retain the property of magnetism after an external magnetic field has been removed.
What is ferromagnetism?
Name some of the applications that Alkaline-earth metals have been used.
What are fireworks, x-rays, and space vehicles?
The most abundant transition metal in the Earth's crust.
What is Iron?
The gradual wearing away of a metal as a result of a chemical reaction in which the metal is changed into a metallic compound
What is corrosion?
The majority of the actinide series of transition metals are _______.
What is radioactive, synthetic, and difficult to study?
The most common way that people ingest mercury.
What is through eating fish or shellfish that have lived in mercury contaminated water?
Why do both alkali metals and alkaline earth metals have relatively low melting points?
It doesn't take as much energy to break the bonds created with atoms that only have one or two valence electrons.
What is plating or galvanizing?