PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS TRIVIA A-Z

18 ARGON 5 6 BORON CARBON Ar B C Dy Er F A noble gas. Colourless and Odourless, provides good atmosphere for working with air-sensitive materials. Brown element which is gaseous at room temperature. Found in all living things. Rare Earth element with silvery lustre. Found only in various minerals and not as a free element. Rare Silvery-White metallic element found in Sweden in the mineral Gadolinite. Discovered by Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1843. A halogen. Fluoride compounds of it used to protect teeth in toothpaste and water supply.

66 Dysprosium 68 Erbium 9 FLUORINE

31 Gallium 1 HYDROGEN

One of the longest liquid ranges and low vapour pressure even at Ga high temperatures. Key component of LED's and high temperature thermometers. H I The lightest of all elements, most abundant in solar system, highly inflammable Bluish/black solid at room temperature, used in medicine especially as treatment for goitre. Gas is distinctive violet colour.

53 Iodine 36 Krypton 3 LITHIUM

Kr Colourless gas, produces brilliant green and orange spectral lines. Li The lightest of all metals. A noble (inert) gas often used in night time lighting effects in big cities. An obvious element of vital importance being the element that most living creatures need to breathe and survive. An Alkaline metal

12 MAGNESIUM Mg A metallic element, important for healthy animal life. 10 NEON 8 OXYGEN Ne O K

19 POTASSIUM 75 Rhenium

A rare, dense, silvery-white metallic element with a very high Re melting point used for electrical contacts and with tungsten for hightemperature thermocouples. Extremely important element, a chief constituent of sand and Si therefore glass. Also used extensively by the computer industry in micro chips. Ti Very strong metal used in sports equipment and medical technology. An artificially produced radioactive element with atomic number 112 Uub whose isotope has a mass number of 277 and a half-life of 280 milliseconds. Referred to as 'eka-mercury'. A hard, brittle, corrosion-resistant, gray to white metallic element extracted from wolframite, scheelite, and other minerals, having the highest melting point and lowest vapor pressure of any metal. W Tungsten and its alloys are used in high-temperature structural materials; in electrical elements, notably lamp filaments; and in instruments requiring thermally compatible glass-to-metal seals. A noble gas. Although it is now known to form several compounds Xe including the highly explosive Xenon Trioxide. Used prominently as a blue colour in Night Lighting. Y Silver-metallic lustre. Used as a phosphor for the red colour in TV screens. Found in most rare minerals on Earth as well was in moon rocks.

14 SILICON 22 TITANIUM 112 Ununbium

74 Tungsten

54 Xenon

39 Yttrium