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History and groupings on the periodic table
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Who is credited with compiling the first list of all known elements?
Antoine Lavoisier
Dmitri Mendeleev
Lothar Meyer
John Newlands
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Elements that are gases or brittle dull-looking solids and poor conductors of electricity...
metalloids
nonmetals
metals
noble gases
3
Magnesium is...
an Alkaline Earth metal
a Halogen
an Alkali metal
a Noble gas
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Based on a discovery by Moseley, the modern periodic table is in order based on...
mass number
atomic number
atomic mass
There is no order to the modern periodic table
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What was Mendeleev able to do that other scientists had not done before?
order elements by increasing mass
make a list of all known elements
group elements with similar properties
correctly predict properties of unknown elements
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Alkali metals are the elements...
beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, radium
in group 1
in group 2
lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium
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What was one problem with Mendeleev's periodic table?
It didn't look like a table at all
it was not periodic
Mendeleev's periodic table was perfect. Nothing wrong.
Some elements appeared to be out of order based on mass
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A column on the periodic table is called...
a row
a group
a period
a family
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The name of Newlands' Law of Octaves is based on...
musical notes repeating after every 8th tone
8 was Newlands' favorite number
the idea that there should be 8 days in a week
the fact that only 8 elements were known in Newlands' time
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The blank spaces in Mendeleev's Periodic Table stood for...
transition elements
undiscovered elements
atomic numbers
places he needed more room
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Xenon is...
A Noble Gas
An Alkaline Earth Metal
A Halogen
An Alkali Metal
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Newlands noted that when elements were arranged by increasing mass, properties repeated...
every other element
every 8th element
never
every 4th element
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Which of the following is not an example of periodicity?
seasons of the year
phases of the moon
days of the week
sneezing
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What element can be found in period 5, group 4?
Zirconium
Hafnium
Vanadoim
Niobium
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Most of the elements on the periodic table fall in which category?
noble gases
nonmetals
metalloids
metals
