Periodic Table Vocabulary
Across
- 2. the basic building block of chemistry
- 3. explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level
- 4. two things mixed together to make something else
- 5. beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium
- 7. not able to decay dur to radioactivity
- 9. A gaseous chemical element that does not readily enter into chemical combination with other elements
- 11. the total number of protons and neutrons in an atom
- 15. a chemical species which holds a positive or negative charge of some magnitud
- 17. the electrons in an atom's outermost electron shell
- 19. the minimum charge possible
- 22. The horizontal rows of the periodic table
- 23. the act of emitting radiation spontaneously
- 26. a chemical element that forms a salt when it reacts with metal
Down
- 1. one of the three subatomic particles that make up an atom
- 2. any of the elements found in Group IA of the periodic table
- 6. steel,iron,copper
- 8. something repeats after fixed interval
- 9. consists of electrically positive protons and electrically neutral neutrons
- 10. equal to the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom or the number of electrons in an electrically neutral atom
- 11. a chemical element that exhibits some metal and some nonmetal properties
- 12. wool,coal,wood
- 13. fixed distances from the nucleus of an atom where electrons may be found
- 14. a variation of an element that possesses the same atomic number but a different mass number
- 16. 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom
- 18. the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field
- 20. the table of elements
- 21. substance made up of different elements joined together by a chemical bond
- 22. a subatomic particle with a positive electrical charge
- 24. a substance whose atoms all have the same number of protons
- 25. A group of electrons circulating around a nucleus or a molecule
- 27. a number of things put together