Element Actinium Aluminum Americium Antimony Argon Arsenic Astatine Barium Berkelium Beryllium Bismuth Bohrium Boron Bromine

Cadmium Calcium Californium

Carbon Cerium Cesium Chlorine Chromium

Cobalt

Uses From aktinos or ray. It is very powerful source of alpha rays. It glows in the dark because its intense radioactivity excites the surrounding air. From alumen or alum. It is highly reactive metal which is readily oxidized in air. Is a man made radioactive metal a few grammes of which are produced from plutonium in nuclear reactors each year. Was early used in the production of bells and metal type. It is existing in two forms; the normal form is metallic and stable. From argos or inactive. It is considered to be a very inner gas and does not form true compounds unlike others in the same group. Strongly linked with poison, it was used as medicine and also in making special glass and semi- conductors. Dangerously radioactive element made in nuclear reactors, its half life is only eight hours. A soft silvery metal that rapidly tarnishes in air and reacts with water and also used to patients suffering digestive disorders. A radioactive silvery metal obtained from plutonium in nuclear reactors. Less than a gramme is made each year. It is so reactive it is stored under oil and also used in gears and cogs. Has been used in forensic work and also used in cosmetic to give pearly effect. Synthetic element created via nuclear bombardment, few atoms have ever been made and its properties are very poorly understood. Forms an extensive and interesting series of hydride, the boranes. It is chemically unreactive except at high temperature. Used in industry of make fuels and additives, insecticides and pharmaceuticals, or to make bromide salts for photography. A silvery metal produced as a by-product of zinc refining. It is a poison and also known to cause birth defects and cancer. From calx, lime. It is found in chalk, limestone, and any hydrite. A radio-active metal made in nuclear reactors from plutonium. Only a few milli grammes are produced each year mainly for used in cancer research. Is a dull black color in the form of graphite or hard and transparent in the form of diamond. Employed in alloys, special glass, ceramics, but the best known use is in flints for pocket lighters. Used in industry as a catalyst promoter to make special glass and in radiation monitoring equipment. Gas is made on a large scale from salt and is used in the manufacture of chlorine bleach and PVC plastic, to purify drinking water. Used in alloys, ceramics and essential element for human because it helps us to use glucose and also added to steel to produced stainless steel. Can be magnetized like iron and also used in magnets, ceramics, and

Copper Curium Darmstadtium Dubnium Dysprosium

Einsteinium

Erbium Europium Fermium Fluorine Francium Gadolinium Gallium Germanium Gold Hafnium Hassium Helium Holmium Hydrogen Indium Iodine

paints. An essential element and forms part of the active site of vit. B12. Is a reddish gold metal that easily worked and drawn into wire. It has a good conductor of heat and electricity. A radioactive metal made in nuclear reactors from plutonium. It is used in satellite technology. Was produced by fusing nickel and lead using heavy ion accelerator. A synthetic element created via nuclear bombardment, few atoms have been ever made and its properties are very poorly understood. Used in making alloys from magnets but as a pure metal its useless because it recs rapidly with water and air, also used in nuclear reactors. A radioactive metal, only a few milligrammes of which are made each year from plutonium in nuclear reactors. It has no uses. Its like E=mc2. Employed in the manufacture of special safety glasses for welders, metal workers and used in producing pink glazes in ceramics. Used in making thin super conducting alloys and in colored televisions. A radioactive metal obtained only in millionth-of-a-gramme quantities in nuclear reactor. It has a very short life-span and has no uses. The most electronegative element of all and has the strongest oxidizing ability. An intensely radioactive metal of which there are minute traces of uranium ores, but its usually made from radium in nuclear reactors. Employed as an alloy for making magnets, electronic components and in the recording heads of video recorders. A soft, silvery metal like aluminum and used to make semiconductor and microwave equipment. A very important semiconductor. Its pure elements is doped with other elements and used as a transistor. Used as architectural ornament, money, jewelry and in some parts of electronic industries and to color glass to make it reflect heat. Alloys are used to make control rods for nuclear reactors because it will absorb neutrons and has a very high melting point. A highly radioactive metal which does not occur naturally and few atoms have ever been made and is properties are poorly understood. Used in deep se diving for balloons and as liquid helium, for low temperature research. Relatively soft and malleable. It is slowly attacked by water and oxygen and dissolves in acids. Its alloys are widely used in magnets. The most abundant element in the universe. It used to reduce nitrogen gas to ammonia in the Haber-Bosch synthesis. Used in low melting alloys for fire sprinkler systems in shops and warehouse. It has no known biological role but is teratogenic. Salts are used in dyes and photography, also an essential element of human. It presents as a types of seaweed.

Iridium Iron Krypton Lanthanum Lawrencium Lead Lithium Lutetium Magnesium Manganese Meitnerium Mendelevium Mercury Molybdenum Neodymium Neon Neptunium

Nickel Niobium Nitrogen Nobelium

Osmium

Used in special alloys, for the contact in spark plugs, hardening agent for platinum. The most important of all metals and also an essential element for all forms of life. Obtained by distillation from liquid air. It is one of the rarest gases in the earth atmosphere. Used in special glass, camera lenses and flints for pocket lighters are made with it. A man made element of which only a few atoms have ever been created by bombarding Californium with boron. Used for cable sheathing, car batteries, lead crystal, radiation protection in some solders and in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead. The lightest of all metals, its salts are used in greases, batteries and glass. Relatively stable in air. A rare metal, little used except for research. Used in flares and incendiary bombs. Decomposes in cold water slowly and will burn in oxygen. It is an essential element for all living things. A highly radioactive metal, of which only a few atom have ever been made. Abstraction of magnified atomic particles. A man made radioactive metal of which only a few atoms have ever been made created by bombarding einsteinium with helium. Used in thermometers and as de-worming powder. Its metal produced and sold as grey poweder and used in alloys, catalysts, electrodes. Also used in valves and boiler plate. A rare earth metal that has a bright, silvery metallic luster - but oxidizes quickly in air. A colorless inert noble gas that glows reddish-orange in discharge tubes and neon lamps. A metal with a silvery appearance, that is chemically reactive and occurs in at least 3 allotropic forms: -neptunium (orthorhombic), neptunium (above 280 C, tetragonal), -neptunium (above 577 C, cubic). Trace amounts of neptunium are found naturally as decay products from transmutation reactions in uranium ores. A silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. A soft, grey, ductile transition metal found in the minerals pyrochlore and columbite. A colorless odorless tasteless and mostly inert gas at room temperature. First announced in the late 1950s. Its physical appearance is unknown but it is thought likely to be silvery-white or grey and metallic. If sufficient amounts of nobelium were ever produced, it would pose a radiation hazard. An extremely dense, blue-grey, hard, brittle, metal that remains lustrous even at high temperatures. It has 4th highest melting point of all elements and is considered to be the densest known element.

Oxygen Palladium

Occurs as a highly reactive colorless odorless tasteless gas. A rare lustrous silvery-white transition metal. (It is relatively valuable due to its many industrial applications yet limited supply.) Phosphorus Occurs in phosphate rocks. Elemental phosphorus exists in two forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus but - due to its high reactivity, phosphorus is never found as a free element in nature. Platinum A silvery-white, lustrous, ductile, and malleable metal. Its resistance to wear and tarnish results in its popularity for making fine jewelry. Plutonium A silvery-white actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air, forming a dull coating of oxide. It occurs in at least 6 allotropes. It is also a radioactive poison that accumulates in bone marrow, hence handling plutonium is highly dangerous. Polonium A rare and highly radioactive metalloid that occurs in uranium ores. It has 33 known isotopes (all radioactive) that have atomic masses ranging from 188 to 220. Potassium A soft silvery-white alkali metal that oxidizes rapidly in air and is very reactive with water. It occurs in nature only as ionic salts, e.g. dissolved in seawater, and as part of minerals. Praseodymium A soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal. At low temperatures its paramagnetic at any temperature above 1 Kelvin. Promethium A radioactive element, only trace amounts of which can be found in naturally occurring ores. Its longest lived isotope 145Pm is a soft beta emitter with a half-life of 17.7 years. Pure promethium can exist in two allotropic forms. Promethium salts luminescent in the dark with a pale blue or greenish glow, due to high radioactivity. Protactinium A radioactive metal that has a bright metallic luster that it retains for some time in contact with air. It is superconductive at temperatures below 1.4 Kelvin. Radium Pure white radioactive alkaline earth metal that occurs in trace amounts in uranium ores. On exposure to air it forms a black oxide. Radon A radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the decay product of radium. It is one of the densest substances that remains a gas under normal conditions and is considered to be a health hazard due to its radioactivity. Rhenium A silvery-white metal that has one of the highest melting points of all elements (exceeded by W and C). It is one of the densest elements (exceeded by Pt, Ire and Os). Rhodium A rare, silvery-white, hard, inert transition metal. Roentgenium A rare, synthetic, highly radioactive element. Rubidium A soft, silvery-white "alkali metal" element. Ruthenium A rare transition metal that is inert to most other chemicals. Rutherfordium A rare, synthetic, highly radioactive element. Samarium A rare earth metal with a bright silver luster. . Scandium A silvery-white metallic transition metal. Seaborgium A rare, synthetic, highly radioactive element. Selenium Occurs in various forms, the most stable of which is a dense purplish-

Silicon Silver

Sodium Strontium

Sulphur Tantalum Technetium

Tellurium Terbium

Thallium Thorium Thulium

Tin

Titanium Tungsten

Uranium

Vanadium Xenon Ytterbium

grey semiconductor. Non-conductive forms of selenium include a black glass-like allotrope and several red crystalline forms. Rarely occurs in free element form in nature. It is found in dusts, sands, and forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal. It is the element with the highest electrical conductivity and the metal of highest thermal conductivity. A soft, silvery-white, highly reactive "alkali metal" element. A grey, silvery metal that is softer than calcium and highly reactive with water. It occurs naturally only in compounds with other elements, such as in the minerals strontianite and celestite. A bright yellow crystalline solid. In nature, it can be found as the pure element and as sulfide and sulfate minerals. A rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that occurs naturally in the mineral tantalite. A silvery grey, crystalline transition. It is the lowest atomic number element without any stable isotopes. Most of technetium is produced synthetically but minute amounts have been found in nature. Naturally occurring technetium occurs as a spontaneous fission product in uranium ore or by neutron capture in molybdenum ores. A brittle, mildly toxic, silver-white metalloid. A silvery-white rare earth metal that is malleable, ductile and soft enough to be cut with a knife. It is not found as a free element in nature but is contained in many minerals. Soft, malleable, grey poor metal. It may be preserved by storage under oil. Thallium is known for its high and nonselective toxicity. A naturally occurring, slightly radioactive metal. A soft, malleable, ductile metal with silvery luster (when pure). It is ferromagnetic below 32 K, ant ferromagnetic between 32 and 56 K and paramagnetic above 56 K. A malleable, ductile, and highly crystalline silvery-white metal of lowtoxicity. It was used widely during the "Bronze Age" to form bronze, an alloy of tin and copper. A light (low-density) metal that is strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant and silver in color. A steel-grey metal that may seem brittle and difficult to work, but can be worked easily when pure. It has the lowest coefficient of thermal expansion of any pure metal. A silvery-white radioactive metal that has 6 known isotopes It occurs naturally in low concentrations (a few parts per million) in soil, rock and water, and is commercially extracted from uranium-bearing minerals such as uraninite.Uranium decays slowly by emitting an alpha particle. A soft, silvery gray, ductile transition metal. A colorless, odorless, heavy, noble gas that occurs in trace amounts in the Earth's atmosphere. A soft, malleable, ductile rare earth metal with a bright silvery luster. It

Yttrium Zinc Zirconium

has 3 allotropes (called alpha, beta and gamma) and is paramagnetic at temperatures above 1 K. A silvery-metallic transition metal that is nearly always found combined with the lanthanides in rare earth minerals - as a free element. A bluish-white, lustrous, diamagnetic, hard, brittle, transition metal. A lustrous, grey-white, strong transition metal. It is not found in nature as a free element but may be obtained from the mineral zircon.