Metals
What are 4 properties of metals?
Ductility, malleability, luster, and conductivity.
Name a Metalloid
Boron, Silicon, Germanium, Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium, Polonium
Which specific group is Neon found in?
Noble Gas: Group 18
What moves across the periodic table and varies in properties?
The properties of elements in a period on the periodic table vary from left to right.
What is the one nonmetal in group 14
Carbon
What is luster?
The ability of a metal to reflect light.
Which group of elements is between the metals and nonmetals?
Metalloids
What is the most common element in the universe?
Hydrogen
How does melting point change across a period on the periodic table?
increases, then decreases
The ability for a metal to be pulled into thin wires is its _______________.
Ductility
What specific group is the element Barium found in?
Alkaline Earth Metals
What is the main property of a metalloid?
Semiconductor
Which specific group is Chlorine found in?
Halogens: group 17
What share similar properties on the periodic table?
Groups
True or False: Nobel gases were discovered when Mendeleev constructed his periodic table.
False
What specific group is the element Potassium found in?
Alkali metal
What is a semiconductor?
A semiconductor sometimes conducts electricity like a metal and sometimes blocks the flow of electricity like a nonmetal.
How are nonmetals different from metals?
Nonmetals are gases at room temperature. Nonmetals are poor conductors and good insulators.
All of the elements on the left side of the periodic table are ____________ except for hydrogen.
Metals
Which group reacts quickly to form salts?
Halogens
Why are lanthanide and actinide series at the bottom of the periodic table?
Because they would not fit properly in the periodic table.
What is one of the most abundant elements on Earth and used as a semiconductor?
Silicon
What are the four most common elements in your body?
Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen
Elements are arranged...
in rows and columns according to their properties
Name 5 practical uses of Transition Elements.
Jewelry, paints, coins, electrical wires, nuclear fuel, or good building material.