Periodic Table Vocabulary

Found along the 'staircase'. Have properties of both metals and nonmetals.

• Metal

• Metalloid

• Non-metal

• Property

brittle , dull, poor conductors of heat and electricity, and have much lower melting and boiling points

• metal

• metalloid

• non-metal

• property

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-1

horizontal rows on the periodic table

• Period

• group

• family

• Ductility

vertical columns on the periodic table

• periods

• groups

• conductivity

• malleability

an element that is shiny and that conducts heat and electricity well

• metal

• non-metal

• metalloid

• malleability

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

A group of elements on the periodic table with similar physical and chemical properties

• period

• family

• metal

• non-metal

Characteristic used to describe something

• Period

• conductivity

• ductility

• property

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-3

The ability of an object to transfer heat or electricity to another object.

• malleability

• conductivity

• ductility

• luster

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS3-4

the ability of a substance to be drawn or pulled to produce a wire

• malleability

• conductivity

• ductility

• luster

the quality of giving off light, brightness, glitter, brilliance

• malleability

• conductivity

• ductility

• luster