Common Elements/Uses
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| Element |
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| Common Uses &/or Descriptions |
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| 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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