| Element |
Common Uses &/or Descriptions |
| Aluminum | A light metal used in making airplanes, buildings, pots and pans, etc. |
| Bromine | Used in photography, medicines, insecticides, etc. |
| Calcium | A soft, metallic chemical element found in limestone, marble, chalk, etc. |
| Carbon | Found in coal, oil, gas, living things, and inks. |
| Chlorine | Used in bleach, in chemical to kill germs in swimming pools, and found with the element sodium in table salt. |
| Chromium | A shiny metal usde on bumpers of some cars, household fixtures, etc. |
| Copper | A metal used for electric wires, pots, pans, and pennies. |
| Gold | A metal used for jewelry and precious decorative pieces. |
| Helium | A gas much lighter in air used in blimps and balloons. |
| Hydrogen | A flammable and explosive gas. |
| Iodine | Used on cuts and wounds to kill germs. |
| Iron | A strong metal used in the construction of buildings, steel, and machines. |
| Lead | A metal used in automobile batteries and in fishing and diving weights. |
| Mercury | A heavy, poisonous liquid used in some thermometers. |
| Neon | A gas used in many lights and signs. |
| Nickel | A metal used in coins. |
| Nitrogen | The main gas in the air, also used as fertilizer. |
| Oxygen | A gas nessesary for respiration; aids burning. |
| Platinum | An expensive metal used in jewelry. |
| Potassium | Found in fertilizers. |
| Silicon | Used in electronics and in compounds for making glass. |
| Silver | Used in tableware, jewelry, photography, medicines, and coins. |
| Sodium | A soft metal that combines with chlorine to make table salt. |
| Sulfur | Used to make sulfuric acid and some medicines such as pet powders. |
| Tin | Used to make cans. |
| Tungsten | A metal used in light bulb filamets. |
| Uranium | A metal used in some nuclear reactions. |
| Zinc | A metal that prevents rust and is used in dry cell batteries. |
| Lithium | High temperature lubricants |
| Magnesium | Powder |
| Lithium | High temperature lubricants |
| Magnesium | Powder |
| Radium | Self-luminous plants |
| Titanium | Alloys with aluminum |
| Zirconium | Nucleur industry for cladding fuel elements |
| Manganese | Used to form many alloys |
| Cobalt | Magnetic steels |
| Plutonium | Nucleur weapons |
| Polonium | eleminating static charges |
| Krypton | Flourescent lights |
| Anitmony | Infared Directors |
| Phosphorus | found in fertilizers |
| Fluorine | Prevents tooth decay |
| Xenon | Electron tubes |
| Argon | Light Bulbs |
| Radon | Earthquake prediction |
| Curium | One source for Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer on Mars |
| Arsenic | bronzing |
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