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What am I named for?
What Group am I?
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The number at the top of rectangle in the periodic table.
What is the Atomic Number?
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The element Sodium's symbol is Na.
What is Natrium, the Latin word for Sodium?
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It is the most abundant element in the ENTIRE universe.
What is Hydrogen (H)?
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Lithium (Li)
What is the Greek word lithos meaning stone?
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Helium (He) Neon (Ne) Argon (Ar) Krypton (Kr) Xenon (Xe) Radon (Rn)
What is Group 18, or the Noble Gases?
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The number at the bottom of the rectangle on the periodic table?
What is the Atomic Mass?
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Mercury (Hg)
What is the Latin word "hydrargyrum" meaning "liquid silver"?
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Only these two elements are liquids at room temperature.
What are Bromine and Mercury?
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Scandium (Sc)
What is the country Scandinavia?
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Lithium (Li) Sodium (Na) Potassium (K) Rubidium (Rb) Cesium (Cs) Francium (Fr)
What is Group 1 or the Alkali Metals?
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We give an atom it's mass
What are protons and neutrons?
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Gold (Au)
What is the Latin word "aurum" meaning "gold"?
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This is the only letter in the Alphabet that doesn't show up in the periodic table EVER.
What is the letter J?
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Bohrium (Bh)
Who is Niels Bohr. Danish scientist who developed the Bohr Model of the atom!
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Fluorine (F) Chlorine (Cl) Bromine (Br) Iodine (I) Astatine (At)
What is group 17 or the Halogens?
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The unit of measurement for the mass of an element.
What is an Atomic Mass Unit or amu?
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Tungsten (W)
What is "wolfram ", named after the tungsten mineral wolframite?
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This is the rarest naturally occurring element on earth.
What is Astatine? The total amount in the Earth's crust estimated to be less than one gram at any given time!
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Fermium
Who is Enrico Fermi? Italian physicist who made contributions to quantum theory!
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Oxygen (O) Sulfur (S) Selenium (Se) Tellurium (Te) Polonium (Po)
What is group 16 or the Chalcogens?
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These particles of an atom aren't always the same number.
What are electrons and neutrons?
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Silver (Ag)
What is the Latin word for silver, 'argentum.'?
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My gas form is colorless but my liquid and solid forms are blue.
What is Oxygen?
500
Rhenium (Re)
What is Latin word for the Rhine River, Rhenus?
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Berylium (Be) Magnesium (Mg) Calcium (Ca) Strontium (Sr) Barium (Ba) Radium (Ra)
What is group 2 or the Alkaline Earth Metals?