PERIODIC TABLE

METALS

METALS

• Generally shiny
• Easily pulled into wires or hammered into thin sheets
• Gold exhibits the common properties of metals.
• Group 1-12 on the periodic table are metals

FRANCIUM

• Francium is the second rarest element in the earths crust next to astatine.
• It decays after 22 minutes and turns into astatine,Radom, or radium.
• It's 22 minute half-life makes francium impracticality radioactive.

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METALLIODS

• The elements boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony,tellurium, polonium, and astatine are metalliods.
• Silicon is the most abundant Metalloid in the universe.
• Most sand is made of compound containing silicon.

BORON

• Used in water softeners
• Glows bright green in fireworks
• Unused in silly puddly

NONMETALS

NONMETALS

• Elements that have no metallic properties
• Of the remaining elements in your body, the two main common elements also are nonmetals.
• The nonmetal elements are helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, phosphorus, sulfur, clorine, argon, selenium, bromine, krypton, iodine, xenon, and radon.

HELIUM

• Use in balloons
• It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas, the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table.
• It's boiling point is the lowest among. all elements.