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Is also called a family
What are groups?
Rows across the periodic table
What are periods?
Most reactive group of metals
What are alkali metals?
There are 18 of them and they have common properties within
What are groups?
The only classification that has only one element in it
What is Carbon?
The positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom
What is the proton?
The uncharged particle in the nucleus of an atom
What is the Neutron?
Orbits the nucleus of an atom in a cloud
What is an electron?
What the majority of an atom is
What is empty space?
The atomic particle with the smallest mass
What is the electron?
The original inventor of the periodic table
Who is Mendeleev?
He shot alpha particles at gold to disprove the plum pudding model
Who is Rutherford?
A student of Rutherford who created the planetary model of the atom still used today
Who is Dalton?
“Science” didn’t exist in early B.C. so it was considered this
What is philosophy?
Mendeleev’s periodic table was arranged by this; unlike the modern periodic table
What is Atom Mass?
Number that must be rounded before using to calculate neutrons
What is Atomic Mass?
The number of neutron in Aluminum; which has an atomic mass of 26 The number of neutron in Aluminum; which has an atomic mass of 26.982 and a Atomic Number of 13
What is 14?
The Atomic Mass of Helium; which as 2 neutrons, 2 electrons, and 2 protons
What is 4?
The reason Atomic Masses are usually decimals instead of whole numbers
What is the average of all naturally existing isotopes?
The element with 1 proton in the nucleus
What is Hydrogen?
A property of metals that means to be workable with a hammer
What is malleable?
A liquid metal
What is Mercury?
Has properties of both metals and nonmetals
What are metaloids?
An element with electrical conductivity but is also brittle; found in pencil lead
What is Carbon?
The group of nonmetals that are not reactive
What are Noble Gases?