Periodic Table Tour
Austin Janssen
Lithium
Slivery color
Very soft
Low Melting Point
Reactive
Potassium
Highly reactive with water
Found in Bananas
Sodium
Silvery-white
Highly reactive with water
Beryllium
Slightly soft
High Melting Point
Magnesium
Not very dense
Explosive
Reacts with water
Calcium
Reacts with water
5th most abundant element on earth's crust
Silvery color
Only found in compound forms in earth's crust
Titanium
Silvery color
Very strong metal
Very resistant to corrosion
Mercury
Only metal that is liquid at room temp.
Can cause mercury poisoning if ingested by humans
Silver
Used in coins
Great conductor of electricity
Copper
Also used in coins
Also a great conductor of electricity
Technetium
Used for X-rays
Silicon
8th most abundant element in the universe
Boron
Created only by cosmic rays
Arsenic
Used to strengthen other metals
Can be poisonous
Uranium
A little radioactive
Used in nuclear weapons
Plutonium
Radioactive, reacts with carbon and other elements
Used in nuclear weapons
Curium
Radioactive
Produced only in nuclear reactors
Promethium
All isotopes are radioactive
Makes salts when combined with other elements
Samarium
Oxidizes easily in air
Slightly toxic
Terbium
Malleable
Ductile
Never found in nature as a raw element
Iodine
Used as a disinfectant
Chlorine
Used to purify water
Makes table salt when combined with sodium
Fluorine
Violently reacts with almost everything
Carbon
Pure carbon can be in things like diamonds and graphite
Humans are made of mostly carbon
Oxygen
Found in water
Makes up 21% of the atmosphere
Nitrogen
Makes up 78% of the atmosphere
Essential to plant life