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- 4. Electron: Electrons in the outermost energy level of an atom; these are responsible for bonding and chemical reactions.
- 5. The principle that the chemical and physical properties of elements repeat in a predictable way when elements are arranged by increasing atomic number.
- 6. Gases: Chemically inert/unreactive gases in Group 18 with full valence shells.
- 7. Metals: Elements in groups 3 through 12, often forming colored compounds.
- 8. Earth Metals: Group 2 elements, which are reactive but less so than alkali metals.
- 10. Elements along the "staircase" line with properties intermediate between metals and nonmetals.
- 14. Elements that are generally gases or brittle, dull solids, and poor conductors of heat and electricity.
- 16. Energy: The amount of energy required to remove an electron from a gaseous atom.
- 18. The ease or speed with which an element combines or reacts with other elements or compounds.
- 19. & Actinides: The two rows usually separated at the bottom of the table, often called inner transition metals.
- 20. A one-, two-, or three-letter abbreviation used to represent an element.
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- 1. A measure of an atom's ability to attract shared electrons in a chemical bond.
- 2. horizontal row on the periodic table; elements in the same period have the same number of electron energy
- 3. vertical column on the periodic table; elements in the same group often have similar chemical properties and the same number of valence electrons.
- 9. Radius: A measure of the size of an atom, usually the distance from the center of the nucleus to the boundary of the electron cloud.
- 11. Mass: The weighted average mass of all naturally occurring isotopes of an element, typically found below the element symbol.
- 12. Number: The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, which determines the element's position on the table.Atomic
- 13. Metals: Group 1 elements, excluding hydrogen, which are extremely reactive soft metals.
- 15. Highly reactive nonmetals in Group 17.
- 17. Elements that are typically shiny, solid at room temperature, conductive, malleable, and ductile.
