Common Uses &/or Descriptions Aluminum Bromine Calcium Carbon A light metal used in making airplanes, buildings, pots

and pans, etc. Used in photography, medicines, insecticides, etc. A soft, metallic chemical element found in limestone, marble, chalk, etc. Found in coal, oil, gas, living things, and inks.

Chlorine Used in bleach, in chemical to kill germs in swimming pools, and found with the element sodium in table salt. Chromium Copper Gold Helium Hydrogen A shiny metal usde on bumpers of some cars, household fixtures, etc. A metal used for electric wires, pots, pans, and pennies. A metal used for jewelry and precious decorative pieces. A gas much lighter in air used in blimps and balloons. A flammable and explosive gas.

Iodine Used on cuts and wounds to kill germs. Iron Lead Mercury Neon A strong metal used in the construction of buildings, steel, and machines. A metal used in automobile batteries and in fishing and diving weights. A heavy, poisonous liquid used in some thermometers. A gas used in many lights and signs.

Nickel A metal used in coins. Nitrogen Oxygen Platinum Potassium The main gas in the air, also used as fertilizer. A gas nessesary for respiration; aids burning. An expensive metal used in jewelry. Found in fertilizers.

Silicon Used in electronics and in compounds for making glass.

Silver Sodium

Used in tableware, jewelry, photography, medicines, and coins. A soft metal that combines with chlorine to make table salt.

Sulfur Used to make sulfuric acid and some medicines such as pet powders. Tin Used to make cans. A metal used in light bulb filamets. A metal used in some nuclear reactions.

Tungsten Uranium Zinc Lithium Magnesium Lithium Magnesium Radium Titanium Zirconium Manganese

A metal that prevents rust and is used in dry cell batteries. High temperature lubricants Powder High temperature lubricants Powder Self-luminous plants Alloys with aluminum Nucleur industry for cladding fuel elements Used to form many alloys

Cobalt Magnetic steels Plutonium Polonium Krypton Anitmony Phosphorus Fluorine Nucleur weapons eleminating static charges Flourescent lights Infared Directors found in fertilizers Prevents tooth decay

Xenon Electron tubes Argon Light Bulbs Radon Earthquake prediction

Curium Arsenic

One source for Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer on Mars bronzing