Element symbols
What is O?
The chemical symbol for oxygen.
The horizontal rows on the periodic table.
What are periods?
Shiny, conducts electricity, malleable.
What are metals?
Created an early periodic table arranging by properties.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
Metal that forms a green patina on statues.
What is copper?
What is Na?
The symbol for sodium.
The vertical columns that share chemical properties.
What are groups?
Often gases or brittle solids; poor conductors
What are nonmetals?
Discovered the electron
Who is J. J. Thomson?
Gas used to fill party balloons.
What is helium?
What is Au?
The symbol for gold.
The group that contains the noble gases.
What is Group 8?
Elements with mixed properties (e.g., silicon).
What are metalloids?
Gold foil experiment discoverer of nucleus.
Who is Ernest Rutherford?
Filament metal in old light bulbs
What is tungsten?
The symbol for iron.
What is Fe?
The period number equals this atomic property for elements in that row
What is the number of electron shells?
Ductile metal used for electrical wiring.
What is copper?
Discovered radium and polonium
Who is Marie Curie?
Element important for bones; in milk
What is calcium?
What is W?
The symbol for tungsten
The group containing the alkali metals.
What is Group 1?
Nonmetal essential for respiration.
What is oxygen?
Showed atomic number defines element identity
Who is Henry Moseley?
Element used in computer chips.
What is silicon?