Metals and Nonmetals

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• How are metalloids different from metals?
• How many nonmetals are there in the periodic table?
• Why are metalloids described as semiconductors?
• Why metals are good conductors of electricity?
• Why are metals malleable?
• What elements are metals?
• Why are metals ductile instead of brittle?
• Why do nonmetals form anions?
• What nonmetals are most chemically reactive?
• What elements are liquid at room temperature?
• What nonmetals are gas at room temperature?
• What nonmetals are essential to life?
• What metals rust?
• How many nonmetals are gases?
• How does the reactivity of metals change from top to bottom on the periodic table?
• How does electronegativity relate to the reactivity of metals?
• How does bromine differ from other nonmetals?
• How do nonmetals react with acids?
• Why do metals conduct electricity?
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• What metals are used in the allopathic treatment of malaria?
• Why do some metals glow when burning in a flame?
• Why do alkali metals react with water?
• What types of elements are generally involved in an ionic bond?
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• What are two physical properties that make metals the ideal material from which to construct electrical wires?
• Which element is an alkali metal: Rubidium or Aluminum?
• Is the element silicon likely to form ionic or covalent bonds?
• How do transition metals form ions?
• How are transition metals related to gemstones?
• How do transition metals react with water?
• How do you name transition metals with roman numerals?
• What are examples of transition metals and their uses?
• What transition metals are magnetic?
• What transition metals are radioactive?
• Which transition metals have fixed charges?
• Why do transition metals have high densities?
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• How do electrons behave in metals? Do metals have a negative charge?
• Of the elements Pt, V, Li, and Kr, which is a nonmetal?
• Fluorine is a non-metal. WIll it give or take electrons?
• What are #(i)# #"malleability"#; #(i)# #"ductility"#; #(iii)# #"metallic bonding"#; and #(iv)# #"bond polarity"#?
• Does #Kr# have luster or is it dull?
• Which element in Period 3 is the most active nonmetal?
• What makes tetrahedral and octahedral transition metal complexes coloured?
• Would an aqueous solution of a salt containing NO metal ions be capable of conducting a current?
• Why group 1 elements are also called alkali metals ?
• What is the most active group of nonmetals?
• Why don't metals break when pounded into sheets or drawn into wires?
• What are Chalcogens?
• Where are reactive metals located on the periodic table?
• In which family in the periodic table are the most reactive nonmetals?
• How can you differentiate between metals and nonmetals on the periodic table?
• Why is the line that separates the metals from nonmetals on the periodic table diagonal downward?
• What is the most reactive nonmetal in the periodic table?
• Which of the first 20 elements in the periodic table are metal and which are non-metals?
• Where are the most active nonmetals located?
• What type of element is most abundant: metals, nonmetals, or metalloids?
• Where are the metals and nonmetals found in the periodic table?
• What are elements found on the left side of the periodic table called?
• Which group in the periodic table has one metalliod and no nonmetals?
• What are 4 physical properties that distinguish metals from nonmetals of the Periodic Table?
• What are examples of metals, non-metals and metalloids?
• Why do metals tend to lose electrons and nonmetals tend to gain electrons when forming ions?
• Where are nonmetals on periodic table?
• How can metals be distinguished from non metals on the periodic table?
• How do you find metals and nonmetals on the periodic table?
• How do you distinguish metals from nonmetals on the periodic table?
• How does the location of hydrogen on the periodic table differ from other nonmetals?
• How many elements are nonmetals on periodic table?
• What are all the nonmetals on periodic table?
• What are the 17 nonmetals on the periodic table?
• Why won't magnesium bromide react with iodine?
• What is the most reactive element on the Periodic Table?
• In a piece of metal, what holds the atoms together?
• What is a mixture of metals called?
• What family is the most reactive metals in the periodic table?
• When two identical nonmetal atoms are bonded together, what is the result?
• How is steel an improvement over iron?
• What is a characteristic common to the transition metals?
• Which is the more metallic element: Sb or Pb?
• Which is the more metallic element: As or Sn?
• What is the term that means metals can be hammered into thin sheets (such as aluminum foil)?
• What are the general properties of alkali metals?
• How are atoms arranged in pure metals?
• What alloy does tin make when mixed with copper?
• What element has the most metallic character?
• How can you recognize the basic chemical structure of an alloy?
• What metal will have properties most similar to chromium?
• Powdered iron is magnetic, but powdered sulfur is not what occurs when they form a mixture in a beaker at room temperature?
• What are three transition metals?
• Is Iridium a metal or a nonmetal?
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• Fires from combustible metals produce what type of fire?
• Do metals react with acids? If so, what products are most typically formed?
• In the activity series of metals, which metal(s) will displace hydrogen from an acid?
• Why is oxygen blown through the molten iron?
• What is the main metal, in steels?
• Do metals have localized electrons?
• Do metals have high electronegativity?
• Do metals have low ionization energies?
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• What is the only nonmetal on the left side of the periodic table?
• How many elements are metals?
• What are some important alloys of the transition metals?
• What important characteristic do the alkali metals alkaline earth metals have in common?
• Lithium, sodium, and potassium all react with water. What might you observe when each of these metals reacts with water?
• If a piece of metal, such as calcium or magnesium, reacts with atmospheric oxygen, would you expect the product to have a greater or lesser mass that the reacting metal? Why?
• Do any elements occur naturally as monatomic gases?
• Why are most metals found in the earth as compounds?
• What is a metal that can be found in the ground as an element?
• Do metals or nonmetals more often a gas at room temperature?
• Which are more brittle: metals or nonmetals?
• Which are more malleable: metals or nonmetals?
• Are metals or nonmetals better conductors of electric current? Why?
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• How do non-metals form anions?
• Are all of the elements in Groups 13 through 15 metals?
• Which is a transition metal: gold, iron, copper, lithium? How can you tell?
• What are some physical properties of metals?
• Nonmetals form which type of bonds by sharing electrons to complete their valence shell and increase stability?
• Are binary molecular compounds generally composed of a metal and a nonmetal?
• What are the properties of nonmetals?
• Why do metal cooking utensils often have plastic coating on their handles?
• Are metals, such as lead and mercury considered hazardous waste?
• Where are metais located?
• How does metallic bonding result in useful properties of metals?
• Do nonmetals prefer to receive electrons in chemical reactions?
• Is sulfur a nonmetal?
• Anon-metal breaks easily. What is a term for this?
• What happens to the reactivity of nonmetals within a group from the top of the group to the bottom?
• What is a general definition of an alloy?
• What are the characteristics of a metal?
• Sterling silver is an alloy made by combining silver with copper in a ratio of 23 to 2. How much copper should be combined with 70 kg of silver to make sterling silver?
• Why are metals malleable, and ductile, and conductive of heat and electricity?
• What is the only liquid nonmetal?
• What defines a nonmetal?
• What metals are more active than hydrogen?
• Why is there a large increase between th first and second ionization energies of the alkali metals?
• What is the difference between metals and metalloids?
• Nonmetals tend to form what ions?
• Where are most metals on the periodic table?
• What are the physical characteristics of nonmetals?
• The nonmetals are found to the right of the staircase line on the modern periodic table. What are the physical characteristics of the non-metals?
• What specific property of metals accounts for their unusual electrical conductivity?
• Is sulfur a metal, metalloid, or nonmetal? What is its family name?
• What are nickel based alloys used for?
• What are the three precious metals?
• How are carbon steels classified as either low, medium, or high carbon steels?
• What properties do metals have in common?
• Most metals have what properties in common?
• What is steel an example of?
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• Which elements in the nitrogen group are metals, nonmetals, or metalloids?
• Why is hydrogen not a metalloid?
• Are nonmetals in the carbon family?
• What do metals typically do when they become ions? What about nonmetals?
• Of the three metals, #Pb, Cu, Zn#, which is the most active?
• What metal is the best conductor of electricity?
• With what element is copper alloyed to make brass?
• At room temperature, what are most nonmetals?
• Compounds of what nonmetal, the most reactive ofan the elements, are used in nonstick cookware and to prevent toot decay?
• What metal, which rusts easily, and is used to make steel, is found in hemoglobin, a compound that carries oxygen in our blood?
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• Metals are good conductors because they have many free electrons. How are these free electrons obtained?
• How do metal ions form salts and complexes?
• How do you determine if an element is metal, nonmetal, or a metalloid?
• What type of bond is formed when nonmetals combine with other nonmetals?
• What is the only nonmetal on left side of the periodic table?
• Many everyday items are made from iron. Haematite is an ore of an iron. Haematite contains iron oxide, #Fe_2O_3#. What is the meaning of the term ore?
• What determines that an element is a metal?
• What are the elements in the rightmost columns of the Periodic Table, as we face the Table?
• Why do we never see organic rings bonding to carbon? Why are metals in the center of sandwich complexes?
• What are five properties of metals?
• What were the main ingredients to make iron and eventually steel?
• What are four non-metals that are solids at room temperature?
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• According to the activity series for metals, will the following reaction occur? #Cu(s) + HCl(aq) ->?#
• Why does production of nickel and copper metals from their ores involve sulfur dioxide emissions?
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• How should the ionization of metals and non-metals compare? Which process should require more energy?
• In terms of oxidizing and reducing properties, what are metal and non-metals?
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• I come in many colors. Although I have a cubic crystal stucture, I tend to break into octahedrons. It might surprise you that I have weak fluorescence. What am I?
• Older transmission lines are made from copper cable. What advantages does copper have compared with aluminum? Why is aluminum used to make transmission lines today?
• What are heavy metals?
• Consider these elements: Gold, Sodium, Magnesium, Platinum, Aluminium. What is total number of metals found in nature in free native state?
• Are some metals soft, and volatile?
• Do metals always give electrons,share electrons or take electrons?
• What is true of all metals?
• What separates a metal from a non-metal?
• What gas is released when acid added to a metal?
• Why is a diamond different from other non-metals?
• Do metals tend to form positive or negative ions?
• Do nonmetals tend to form positive or negative ions?
• Bromine is the only halogen and nonmetal that is normally in what state?
• What are the characteristics of metals?
• How does the ionic radius of a nonmetal compare radius?
• The energy of colored light increases in order: red, yellow, green, blue, violet. What are the metallic elements used in the flame test in increasing order of energy of the light emitted?
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• Do metals have any specific characteristics?
• When given a chemical formula, how can you determine the charge on a transition metal?
• Why does metal feel colder than wood if they are both at room temperature?
• In the presence of an active metal, do bases usually release hydrogen gas?
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• Because it can either lose or share electron when it combines with other etements, each of what has some of the properties of metals and some ofthe properties of nonmetals?
• Why is fluorine so reactive?
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• What is a natural state for a metal?
• What is the difference between oxidants and reductants?
• Why do metals decrease in mass in acids?
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• Why alkaline earth metals are harder than alkali metals?
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• Is metallic bond between two metals, or is present in one metal?