List of elements in the periodic table

This is a list of the elements listed in the periodic table.[1]

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Hydrogen

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Hydrogen	1	Blowing up the Hindenburg, Composing the vast majority of the universe's matter	H	No

Alkali metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Lithium	3	making rechargeable batteries	Li	No
Sodium	11	explodes when touching water	Na	No
Potassium	19		K	No
Rubidium	37	In very precise clocks	Rb	No
Cesium	55	atomic clocks	Cs	No
Francium	87		Fr	Yes

Alkali earth metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Beryllium	4	strong but lightweight material	Be	No
Magnesium	12	Lots, present in chlorophyll, alloys	Mg	No
Calcium	20	present in bones and cement	Ca	No
Strontium	38	red fireworks, glass in old-fashioned CRT televisions	Sr	No
Barium	56	drilling fluid, rat poison, medical imaging	Ba	No
Radium	88	Being radioactive	Ra	Yes

Transition metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Scandium	21	When you need tools	Sc	No
Titanium	22	strong but lightweight, artificial bones, aircraft parts	Ti	No
Vanadium	23	In tools	V	No
Chromium	24	Chrome plating, stainless steel	Cr	No
Manganese	25	Alloying with steel and aluminum	Mn	No
Iron	26	ferromagnetic, (electro)magnets, steel, good conductor of heat and electricity, part of hemoglobin	Fe	No
Cobalt	27	ferromagnetic, coloring glass blue	Co	No
Nickel	28	in currency, certain kinds of stainless steel	Ni	No
Copper	29	coins, good conductor of heat and electricity; The first metal humans smelted	Cu	No
Zinc	30	In currency	Zn	No
Yttrium	39	Forms YBCO	Y	No
Zirconium	40	Fake diamonds	Zr	No
Niobium	41	Piercings, destroying Congo's economy (with tantalum)	Nb	No
Molybdenum	42	Alloys, generating technetium	Mo	No
Technetium	43	Nuclear medicine	Tc	Yes
Ruthenium	44	Being a metal no one's heard of	Ru	No
Rhodium	45	Plating cheap jewelry	Rh	No
Palladium	46	Imitating silver[notes 1], catalytic converters	Pd	No
Silver	47	Mirrors, great conductor of heat and electricity, coins	Ag	No
Cadmium	48	Yellow, carcinogenic pigment	Cd	No
Hafnium	72	Plasma torches	Hf	No
Tantalum	73	Capacitors,[notes 2] destroying Congo's economy (with niobium)	Ta	No
Tungsten	74	Incredibly high melting point, mining drills, lightbulbs/globes, armor-piecing shells	W	No
Rhenium	75	Alloys, thin wires	Re	No
Osmium	76	Alloying with iridium; most dense metal	Os	No
Iridium	77	Spark plug electrodes	Ir	No
Platinum	78	Jewelry; being really expensive catalysis	Pt	No
Gold	79	Jewelry, high performance electrical contacts, money!!!	Au	No
Mercury	80	First planet from the sun Poison, thermometers, freaks anti-vaxxers out	Hg	No
Rutherfordium	104	None	Rf	Yes
Dubnium	105	None	Db	Yes
Seaborgium	106	None	Sg	Yes
Bohrium	107	None	Bh	Yes
Hassium	108	None	Hs	Yes
Meitnerium	109	None	Mt	Yes
Darmstadtium	110	None	Ds	Yes
Roentgenium	111	None	Rg	Yes
Copernicium	112	None	Cn	Yes

Semimetals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Boron	5	Fiberglass	B	No
Silicon	14	Electronics	Si	No
Germanium	32	Camera lenses	Ge	No
Arsenic	33	Poison	As	No
Antimony	51	Alloying with lead	Sb	No
Tellurium	52	In DVDs	Te	No

Other Nonmetals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Carbon	6	High efficiency fuel, Plastic, dietary fats, carbs, and fibers, global warming, pencils	C	No
Nitrogen	7	Air, having a really low boiling point, dynamite	N	No
Phosphorus	15	Fertilizer, matches, phospholipid bilayers, making meth[notes 3]	P	No

Post-transition metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Aluminum	13	Airplanes, foil	Al	No
Gallium	31	Having a low melting point	Ga	No
Indium	49	Thermometers	In	No
Tin	50	Making bronze	Sn	No
Thallium	81	Poison	Tl	No
Lead	82	Pipes, paint, gasoline additive Poison, bullets, radiation shielding	Pb	No
Bismuth	83	Pepto-Bismol	Bi	Yes(technically)[notes 4]
Polonium	84	Assassinating ex-FSB agents	Po	Yes
Nihonium	113	None	Nh	Yes

Chalcogens

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Oxygen	8	Cellular respiration	O	No
Sulfur	16	Creating face-melting acid	S	No
Selenium	34	Glass production	Se	No

Halogens

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Fluorine	9	Toothpaste	F	No
Chlorine	17	Disinfecting swimming pools	Cl	No
Bromine	35	Disinfectant	Br	No
Iodine	53	Antiseptic	I	No
Astatine	85	None	At	Yes
Tennessine	117	None	Ts	Yes

Noble gases

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Helium	2	In balloons, blimps and zeppelins, jokes about pitch-shifts; liquid helium has interesting properties and is one of the coolest materials known to science	He	No
Neon	10	Gaudy casinos	Ne	No
Argon	18	Shield gas for substances that oxidize easily	Ar	No
Krypton	36	Superman's home planet Incandescent bulbs	Kr	No
Xenon	54	Galactic ruler of Scientology fame Highly efficient, electrically-powered ion thrusters on satellites	Xe	No
Radon	86	Leading cause of lung cancer that isn't smoking or asbestos	Rn	Yes
Oganesson	118	None	Og	Yes

Rare Earth metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Lanthanum	57	Flints	La	No
Cerium	58	Lighter flints	Ce	No
Praseodymium	59	Coloring glass yellow	Pr	No
Neodymium	60	Very strong magnets	Nd	No
Promethium	61	Atomic batteries	Pm	Yes
Samarium	62	Powerful magnets used in electronics	Sm	No
Europium	63	Red and blue phosphors in CRT televisions	Eu	No
Gadolinium	64	Increasing contrast in MRI scans	Gd	No
Terbium	65	Fluorescent lights	Tb	No
Dysprosium	66	Nuclear control rods	Dy	No
Holmium	67	High strength magnets	Ho	No
Erbium	68	Photographic filters	Er	No
Thulium	69	Lasers	Tm	No
Ytterbium	70	Strengthening stainless steel	Yb	No
Lutetium	71	Lights in LEDs	Lu	No

Actinides

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Actinium	89	Radio-immunotherapy	Ac	Yes
Thorium	90	Lantern mantles	Th	Yes
Protactinium	91	None	Pa	Yes
Uranium	92	Nuclear power	U	Yes
Neptunium	93	Neutron detection equipment	Np	Yes
Plutonium	94	Pacemakers	Pu	Yes
Americium	95	Smoke detectors	Am	Yes
Curium	96	Powering equipment used on space missions	Cm	Yes
Berkelium	97	None	Bk	Yes
Californium	98	Portable metal detectors	Cf	Yes
Einsteinium	99	None	Es	Yes
Fermium	100	None	Fm	Yes
Mendelevium	101	None	Md	Yes
Nobelium	102	None	No	Yes
Lawrencium	103	None	Lr	Yes

Notes

1. Which is pretty ironic, considering that palladium is actually more expensive than silver.
2. Maybe one is in the device you're using to read this...
3. This is the reason it's illegal to buy elemental phosphorus in the United States
4. All isotopes of bismuth are radioactive, some however have really, really long half-lives.

References

1. http://www.periodictable.com