Unit: Chemistry Lesson 2: Organizing the Elements Essential Questions: 1.) What did Mendeleev discover? 2.) What information does the periodic table contain? 3.) How is the periodic table useful?
What did Mendeleev discover? Periodic table- an arrangement of the elements showing a pattern of their properties
What information does the Periodic Table contain? Atomic number- the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom
Chemical symbol- a one or two letter abbreviation for an element
Atomic mass- average mass of all the isotopes of that element
How is the Periodic Table useful? Periods- rows Groups- columns