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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| metal | a soild material that is typically hard shiny malleable fusible and ductile with good electrical and thermal conductivity |
| malleable | of a metel able to be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or cracking. |
| ductile | able to be drawn out into a think wire able to deformed with out losing toughness. |
| metallic bonding | metallic bonding constitutes the electrostaic attractive forces between the delocalized electrons call conduction electrons gathered in an electron cloud. |
| radioactive element | a chemical element is a pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom distingished by its aomic number which is the number |
| transition element | the term transition metal has two possible meanings in the past it refered to any |
| nonmetal | nonmetal or non metal is a term used in chemistry when classifying the chemical elements. |
| diatomic molecule | diatomic molecules are molecules composed only of two atoms of the same or different elemenets |
| salt | when a halogen gains an electron from a metal |
| sublimation | the process of a solid changes directly to a vapor with out forming a liquid |
| metalloid | can form ionic and covalent bonds with other elements |
| allotrope | different forms of the same element |
| semiconductors | elements that conduct an electric current under certain conditions |
| transuranium element | elements having more then 92 protons the atomic number of uranium. |