Across
- 5. horizontal rows on the periodic table; 7 numbered ________s on the periodic table
- 6. another name for a group
- 8. table/ table of chemical elements arranged in order of atomic number
- 9. metals/ form colored ion compounds
- 11. metal/ in Group 2 of the periodic table
- 13. electron/ electron in its highest occupied energy level of an atom
- 14. has luster; malleable; excellent conductors of heat and electricity
- 15. has properties of both metals and nonmetals
- 17. configuration/ arrangement of electrons of an atom in its ground state into various orbitals(shells) around the nuclei of atoms
Down
- 1. gas/ in Group 18 of the periodic table
- 2. energy/ energy it takes to remove a valence electron
- 3. vertical columns on the periodic table; 18 numbered ________ s on the periodic table
- 4. the ability of an atom to attract electrons when the atom is in a compound
- 5. law/ when the elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number
- 7. Halogen; liquid; in Group 17
- 10. solids are brittle; non conductors; exist in all phases
- 11. mass/ the weighted average of the masses of the isotopes of an element
- 12. metal/ in Group 1 of the periodic table
- 16. only liquid metal