Periodic Table Puzzle

2. I am a silvery white metal used to make salt.
4. I am a transition metal with 30 electrons useful in making paint.
6. I am a member of the nitrogen family with 16 neutrons meaning phosphorus rich.
10. I am a member of the halogen family with an atomic number of 53
11. I am the 2nd most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and have 14 neutrons.
14. I am a member of the alkaline earth metals used to make bright white light in fireworks.
16. I am a member of the carbon family often mistaken for the end of your pencil.
17. My atomic number is 79.
18. I make up 78% of the air and am found in the 15th group. (In Gr. 9 we say 5th group or column 5)
19. I am a noble gas with 2 electrons.
20. My atomic mass is 35.453.
23. You can find me in the carbon family in the fifth period.
24. I am a gas with a mass number of 40.
25. I am a member of the boron family and am the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust.

1. I am the first element in the fourth period used in making fertilizer.
3. I am a metal with 28 electrons
5. I am the head of the carbon family known as the “basis of life”.
7. I have 2 electrons in the first shell, 8 in the second shell, and 6 in the third shell.
8. I am a transition metal with 25 electrons.
9. I am the only element in the halogen family that is a liquid.
12. I have 20 neutrons and am found in your teeth and bones.
13. I am not really an alkali metal, but since I have only 1 electron, I behave like them.
15. My atomic number is 47 and I am used in making photographic films.
21. I am a gas with 8 protons and 8 neutrons.
22. I have 26 protons.