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Element Facts

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Answer
columns   groups, families  
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rows   periods  
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How many rows on the periodic table?   7  
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How many columns on the periodic table?   18  
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Elements are named after...   scientists and geographical regions  
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Who created the periodic table?   Dmitri Mendeleev  
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How did Mendeleev arrange the periodic table?   Increasing order of atomic mass  
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The only metal that is a liquid   Mercury  
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Solid at room temperature   Metals  
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Silver-gray   Metals  
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The only two metals that aren't silver-gray   Gold and copper  
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Good conductors of heat and electricity   Metals  
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Metallic luster   Metals  
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Malleable   Metals  
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Found in all states   Nonmetals  
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All elements that are gases at room temperature are...   Nonmetals  
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Can have many colors or are invisible   Nonmetals  
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Poor conductors of heat and electricity   Nonmetals  
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Insulators   Nonmetals  
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Left of step   Metals  
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Shiny   Metals  
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Ductile   Metals  
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Right of step   Nonmetals  
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Dull   Nonmetals  
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Nonmalleable   Nonmetals  
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Nonductile   Nonmetals  
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Brittle   Nonmetals  
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Located close to step   Metalloids  
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Properties of metals and nonmetals   Metalloids  
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7 metalloids   boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, polonium  
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How many elements does the periodic table have?   115  
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How many elements are natural?   94  
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How many elements are man-made?   21  
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Who rearranged the periodic table?   Henry Moseley  
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How did Moseley put the elements in order?   Increasing atomic number  
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4 pieces of information in each box of the periodic table?   atomic number, atomic mass, chemical symbol, element name  
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Group 1   Alkali metals  
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Group 2   Alkaline-earth metals  
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Groups 3-12   Transition metals  
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Group 13   Boron group  
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Group 14   Carbon group  
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Group 15   Nitrogen group  
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Group 16   Oxygen group  
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Group 17   Halogens  
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Group 18   Noble gases  
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Shiny, reactive metals   Lanthanides  
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All atoms are radioactive   Actinides  
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Elements after 94 plutonium are not occuring in nature but produced in labs   Actinides  
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In group 1 because it has 1 electron in outermost energy level   Hydrogen  
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Physical properties are more like properties of nonmetals   Hydrogen  
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States that "the chemical and physical properties of elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers"   Periodic law  
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