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DISPLAY PROPERTY/TREND

Chemical Group Block

1 18
1 2
1  
H He
2 13 14 15 16 17
3 4 1 Atomic Number 5 6 7 8 9 10
2
Li Be
H Symbol B C N O F Ne

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
3
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
4
K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr

37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
5
Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe

55 56 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
6 *
Cs Ba Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn

87 88 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118
7 **
Fr Ra Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og

57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
* La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu

89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103

** Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr

LIST OF ELEMENTS W/CHEMICAL GROUP BLOCK

Element Chemical Group Block

1
Hydrogen Nonmetal
H

2
Helium Noble Gas
He

3
Lithium Alkali Metal
Li

4
Beryllium Alkaline Earth Metal
Be

5
Boron Metalloid
B

6
Carbon Nonmetal
C

7
Nitrogen Nonmetal
N

8
Oxygen Nonmetal
O

9
Fluorine Halogen
F

10
Neon Noble Gas
Ne

11
Sodium Alkali Metal
Na

12
Magnesium Alkaline Earth Metal
Mg

13
Aluminum Post-Transition Metal
Al

14
Silicon Metalloid
Si

15
Phosphorus Nonmetal
P

16
Sulfur Nonmetal
S

17
Chlorine Halogen
Cl

18
Argon Noble Gas
Ar

19
Potassium Alkali Metal
K

20
Calcium Alkaline Earth Metal
Ca

21
Scandium Transition Metal
Sc

22
Titanium Transition Metal
Ti

23
Vanadium Transition Metal
V

24
Chromium Transition Metal
Cr

25
Manganese Transition Metal
Mn

26
Iron Transition Metal
Fe

27
Cobalt Transition Metal
Co

28
Nickel Transition Metal
Ni

29
Copper Transition Metal
Cu

30
Zinc Transition Metal
Zn

31
Gallium Post-Transition Metal
Ga

32
Germanium Metalloid
Ge

33
Arsenic Metalloid
As

34
Selenium Nonmetal
Se

35
Bromine Halogen
Br

36
Krypton Noble Gas
Kr

37
Rubidium Alkali Metal
Rb

38
Strontium Alkaline Earth Metal
Sr

39
Yttrium Transition Metal
Y

40
Zirconium Transition Metal
Zr

41
Niobium Transition Metal
Nb

42
Molybdenum Transition Metal
Mo

43
Technetium Transition Metal
Tc

44
Ruthenium Transition Metal
Ru

45
Rhodium Transition Metal
Rh

46
Palladium Transition Metal
Pd

47
Silver Transition Metal
Ag

48
Cadmium Transition Metal
Cd

49
Indium Post-Transition Metal
In

50
Tin Post-Transition Metal
Sn

51
Antimony Metalloid
Sb

52
Tellurium Metalloid
Te

53
Iodine Halogen
I

54
Xenon Noble Gas
Xe

55
Cesium Alkali Metal
Cs

56
Barium Alkaline Earth Metal
Ba

57
Lanthanum Lanthanide
La

58
Cerium Lanthanide
Ce

59
Praseodymium Lanthanide
Pr

60
Neodymium Lanthanide
Nd

61
Promethium Lanthanide
Pm

62
Samarium Lanthanide
Sm

63
Europium Lanthanide
Eu

64
Gadolinium Lanthanide
Gd

65
Terbium Lanthanide
Tb

66
Dysprosium Lanthanide
Dy

67
Holmium Lanthanide
Ho

68
Erbium Lanthanide
Er

69
Thulium Lanthanide
Tm

70
Ytterbium Lanthanide
Yb

71
Lutetium Lanthanide
Lu

72
Hafnium Transition Metal
Hf

73
Tantalum Transition Metal
Ta

74
Tungsten Transition Metal
W

75
Rhenium Transition Metal
Re

76
Osmium Transition Metal
Os

77
Iridium Transition Metal
Ir

78
Platinum Transition Metal
Pt

79
Gold Transition Metal
Au

80
Mercury Transition Metal
Hg

81
Thallium Post-Transition Metal
Tl

82
Lead Post-Transition Metal
Pb

83
Bismuth Post-Transition Metal
Bi

84
Polonium Metalloid
Po

85
Astatine Halogen
At

86
Radon Noble Gas
Rn

87
Francium Alkali Metal
Fr

88
Radium Alkaline Earth Metal
Ra

89
Actinium Actinide
Ac

90
Thorium Actinide
Th

91
Protactinium Actinide
Pa

92
Uranium Actinide
U

93
Neptunium Actinide
Np

94
Plutonium Actinide
Pu

95
Americium Actinide
Am

96
Curium Actinide
Cm

97
Berkelium Actinide
Bk

98
Californium Actinide
Cf

99
Einsteinium Actinide
Es

100
Fermium Actinide
Fm

101
Mendelevium Actinide
Md

102
Nobelium Actinide
No

103
Lawrencium Actinide
Lr

104
Rutherfordium Transition Metal
Rf

105
Dubnium Transition Metal
Db

106
Seaborgium Transition Metal
Sg

107
Bohrium Transition Metal
Bh

108
Hassium Transition Metal
Hs

109
Meitnerium Transition Metal
Mt

110
Darmstadtium Transition Metal
Ds

111
Roentgenium Transition Metal
Rg

112
Copernicium Transition Metal
Cn

113
Nihonium Post-Transition Metal
Nh

114
Flerovium Post-Transition Metal
Fl

115
Moscovium Post-Transition Metal
Mc

116
Livermorium Post-Transition Metal
Lv

117
Tennessine Halogen
Ts

118
Oganesson Noble Gas
Og

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Why Arrange Elements in

a Table?
Seeing chemical elements arranged in the
modern periodic table is as familiar as seeing
a map of the world, but it was not always so
obvious.

The creator of the periodic table, Dmitri

Mendeleev, in 1869 began collecting and
sorting known properties of elements, like he
was playing a game, while traveling by train.
He noticed that there were groups of
elements that exhibited similar properties,
but he also noticed that there were plenty of
exceptions to the emerging patterns.

Incredibly, instead of giving up, he tried

altering the measured property values to
better fit the patterns! He also predicted that
certain elements must exist which didn’t at
the time – again, in an effort to get the
patterns in his "game" to work out.

There were plenty of skeptics and it took

years to gain international acceptance, but
once newly-discovered elements matched
the ones that Mendeleev predicted, his
patterns could not be dismissed. In addition,
some of the properties that he "fudged"
were later recalculated and found to be much
closer to his predictions.

Does the Modern Periodic

Table Change? If So, How
and Who Does That?
The periodic table as we know it today is
managed by the International Union of Pure
and Applied Chemistry, or IUPAC (eye-you-
pack).

While much of what is in the periodic table is

stable and unlikely to change, the IUPAC
organization is responsible for deciding what
needs to be changed. They have created
criteria for what constitutes the discovery of
a new element.

In addition, any new element must be

assigned a temporary name and symbol, and
if validated, given an official name. Such was
the case when IUPAC recently reviewed
elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, and decided
to give them official names and symbols
(goodbye, ununseptium and hello,
tennessine!).

Atomic weights found within a periodic table

one might think are constant. The truth is
that atomic weights have changed as a
function of time. Since 1899 the IUPAC
Commission on Isotopic Abundances and
Atomic Weights (CIAAW) has been
evaluating atomic weights and abundances.
For example, Carbon had an atomic weight of
12.00 in 1902 but today it is [12.0096,
12.0116]! Times sure have changed as the
source of the sample will determine the
value.

Finally, IUPAC assigns collective names

(lanthanoids and actinoids) and group
numbering (1 to 18) and has investigated the
membership of the group 3 elements.

PubChem is working with IUPAC to help

make information about the elements and the
periodic table machine-readable.

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