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; | Pt | No |
Gold | 79 | Jewelry, high performance electrical contacts, | Au | No |
Mercury | 80 | 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 | 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 | Kr | No | |
Xenon | 54 | 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
- Which is pretty ironic, considering that palladium is actually more expensive than silver.
- Maybe one is in the device you're using to read this...
- This is the reason it's illegal to buy elemental phosphorus in the United States
- All isotopes of bismuth are radioactive, some however have really, really long half-lives.
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