The Periodic Table and its Trends
Across
- 4. Opaque, lustrous elements that are good conductors of heat and electricity
- 7. Odorless, colorless nonmetals with full shells of valence electrons
- 8. element that exhibits some metal and some nonmetal properties
- 12. total number of electrons an atom gains or loses to form a chemical bond with another atom
- 14. Good insulators of heat and electricity and mostly gases and sometimes liquid
- 15. energy amount of energy required to remove an electron from an isolated atom
Down
- 1. six chemical elements that make up Group 1 (Ia) of the periodic table
- 2. total mass of particles of matter in an atom
- 3. six chemical elements that make up Group 2 (Is) of the periodic table
- 5. number of protons in the nucleus of each atom of that element
- 6. an atom's ability to attract shared electrons to itself
- 9. six chemical elements that make up Group 7 (I) of the periodic table
- 10. Vertical columns on the Periodic Table
- 11. Horizontal rows on the Periodic Table
- 13. The tendency of atoms to prefer to have eight electrons in the valence shell