List of elements in the periodic table

This is a list of the elements listed in the periodic table.Periodic Table, Royal Society of Chemistry
==Hydrogen==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Hydrogen	1 	Blowing up the Hindenburg, water, acidity, composing the vast majority of the universe's matter, and present in almost as many compounds as carbon	H 	No
==Alkali metals==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Lithium 	3 	making rechargeable batteries, treating bipolar disorder 	Li 	No
Sodium 	11 	explodes when touching water, table salt, baking soda, important in cell osmosis 	Na 	No
Potassium	19 	Fertilizers, important for brains to function, K-40 is famously radioactive 	K 	No
Rubidium 	37 	In very precise clocks, photocells, purple-red fireworks 	Rb 	No
Cesium 	55 	atomic clocks, ion propulsion systems, vacuum tubes, softest metal in its pure form	Cs 	No
Francium 	87 	 	Fr 	Yes
==Alkaline earth metals==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Beryllium	4 	strong but lightweight material, gyroscopes, accelerometers, missiles, emeralds 	Be 	No
Magnesium	12 	Most used metal after steel and aluminum, present in chlorophyll, alloys, cars, planes, electronics, batteries, asbestos	Mg 	No
Calcium 	20 	bones, cement, limestone, gypsum, antacids, plays an important role in the carbon cycle 	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 dangerously radioactive, decays to even-deadlier radon, was a fad in the early 20th century 	Ra 	Yes
==Transition metals==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Scandium 	21 	When you need tools, bicycles, baseball bats 	Sc 	No
Titanium 	22 	strong but lightweight, artificial bones, aircraft parts, non-toxic white paint 	Ti 	No
Vanadium 	23 	In tools; shock-, vibration-, and neutron-resistant alloys; catalyst for sulfuric acid 	V 	No
Chromium 	24 	Chrome plating, stainless steel, rubies, tanning leather 	Cr 	No
Manganese 	25 	Alloying with steel and aluminum, certain enzymes 	Mn 	No
Iron 	26 	ferromagnetic, Earth's magnetic field, (electro)magnets, steel, hemoglobin, blue ink, good conductor of heat and electricity, end of the line in stellar nucleosynthesis 	Fe 	No
Cobalt 	27 	ferromagnetic, coloring glass blue, jet turbines 	Co 	No
Nickel 	28 	in currency, certain kinds of stainless steel, corrosion-resistant 	Ni 	No
Copper 	29 	coins, good conductor of heat and electricity, industrial equipment; The first metal humans smelted 	Cu 	No
Zinc 	30 	In currency, brass, luminous paint, plating (galvanizing steel) 	Zn 	No
Yttrium 	39 	Forms YBCO, microwave filters in radars 	Y 	No
Zirconium 	40 	Fake diamonds, tubing in nuclear reactors, ultra-strong ceramics 	Zr 	No
Niobium 	41 	Piercings, NMR equipment, destroying Congo's economy (with tantalum) 	Nb 	No
Molybdenum 	42 	Alloys, maglevs, generating technetium 	Mo 	No
Technetium 	43 	Nuclear medicine 	Tc 	Yes
Ruthenium 	44 	olefin metathesis, chip resistors 	Ru 	No
Rhodium 	45 	Plating cheap jewelry, catalytic converters in cars, having a very unstable market value 	Rh 	No
Palladium 	46 	Imitating silver,Which is pretty ironic, considering that palladium is actually more expensive than silver. catalytic converters, ceramic capacitors, cross-coupling reactions	Pd 	No
Silver 	47 	Mirrors, great conductor of heat and electricity, coins, anti-bacterial fabrics, killing werewolves 	Ag 	No
Cadmium 	48 	Yellow, carcinogenic pigment, fission-controlling rods 	Cd 	No
Hafnium 	72 	Plasma torches, control rods in nuclear submarines 	Hf 	No
Tantalum 	73 	Capacitors,Maybe one is in the device you're using to read this... surgical implants, turbine blades, 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, rarest stable element 	Re 	No
Osmium 	76 	Alloying with iridium, fountain pens; most dense metal 	Os 	No
Iridium 	77 	Spark plug electrodes, photocatalysis, common in meteorites; metal most resistant to corrosion 	Ir 	No
Platinum 	78 	Jewelry, optical fibres, hard disks, being really expensive catalysis 	Pt 	No
Gold 	79 	Jewelry, high performance electrical contacts, highly ductile and malleable, scamming elderly people, money!!! 	Au 	No
Mercury 	80 	First planet from the sun</S> Poison, thermometers, vermillion pigment, turning milliners insane, 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 	Borax, fiberglass, green color in fireworks 	B 	No
Silicon 	14 	Electronics, sand, glass, speculative life 	Si 	No
Germanium	32 	Camera lenses, old transistors 	Ge 	No
Arsenic 	33 	Poison, doping semiconductors 	As 	No
Antimony 	51 	Alloying with lead, mascara used in ancient times,	Sb 	No
Tellurium	52 	In DVDs, solar cells 	Te 	No
==Other Nonmetals==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Carbon 	6 	Terrestrial life, High efficiency fuel, Plastic, dietary fats, carbs, and fibers, global warming, pencils, reducing iron ore to iron, steel, present in 95% of known compounds	C 	No
Nitrogen 	7 	Air, protein, ammonia, fertilizer, having a really low boiling point, dynamite 	N 	No
Phosphorus	15 	Fertilizer, matches, DNA, phospholipid bilayers, baking powder, making methThis is the reason it's illegal to buy elemental phosphorus in the United States 	P 	No
==Post-transition metals==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Aluminum 	13 	Airplanes, foil, beverage cans, thermite, coins that aren't worth their weight in zinc 	Al 	No
Gallium 	31 	LEDs, having a low melting point 	Ga 	No
Indium 	49 	Thermometers, LCDs, quantum computers 	In 	No
Tin 	50 	Many alloys, including bronze, pewter and solder 	Sn 	No
Thallium 	81 	Poison, low temperature thermometers 	Tl 	No
Lead 	82 	Pipes, paint, gasoline additive Poison, bullets, specialized glass, vehicle batteries, radiation shielding	Pb 	No
Bismuth 	83 	Pepto-Bismol, fire extinguishers, beautiful crystals 	Bi 	Yes(technically)All isotopes of bismuth are radioactive, some however have really, really long half-lives.The most common isotope is much less radioactive than... YOU!
Polonium 	84 	antistatic devices 	Po 	Yes
Nihonium 	113 	None 	Nh 	Yes
Flerovium 	114 	None 	Fv 	Yes
Moscovium 	115 	UFOs None 	Mc 	Yes
Livermorium	116 	None 	Lv 	Yes
==Chalcogens==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Oxygen 	8 	Cellular respiration, fire, antifreeze, 65% of the mass of the human body	O 	No
Sulfur 	16 	Creating face-melting acid, pesticides, rotten egg smell 	S 	No
Selenium	34 	Glass production, photocopiers, anti-dandruff shampoo 	Se 	No
==Halogens==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Fluorine 	9 	Toothpaste, Teflon, violent reactivity, separating uranium isotopes 	F 	No
Chlorine 	17 	Table salt, disinfecting swimming pools, PVC, chloroform, chemical weapons	Cl 	No
Bromine 	35 	Disinfectant, flame retardants 	Br 	No
Iodine 	53 	Antiseptic, dyes, nutritional suplements 	I 	No
Astatine 	85 	Being the rarest naturally occurring element 	At 	Yes
Tennessine	117 	None 	Ts 	Yes
==Noble gases==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Helium 	2 	In balloons, blimps and zeppelins, shielding gas, coolant for MRI and NMR, gas chromatography, 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, lasers 	Ne 	No
Argon 	18 	Shield gas for substances that oxidize easily, fluorescent bulbs, third most common gas in Earth's atmosphere 	Ar 	No
Krypton 	36 	Superman's home planet Incandescent bulbs, high-speed photography, determining the standard measurement of length 	Kr 	No
Xenon 	54 	Galactic ruler of Scientology fame Highly efficient, electrically-powered ion thrusters on satellites, microprocessors 	Xe 	No
Radon 	86 	Leading cause of lung cancer that isn't smoking or asbestos 	Rn 	Yes
OganessonWhich is unlikely to be noble or a gas at room temperature	118 	None 	Og 	Yes
==Rare Earth metals==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Lanthanum 	57 	Flints, studio lighting, anodes of batteries used in hybrid cars 	La 	No
Cerium 	58 	Lighter flints, floodlights, non-toxic red pigment 	Ce 	No
Praseodymium	59 	Coloring glass yellow, aircraft engines 	Pr 	No
Neodymium 	60 	Very strong magnets, laser pointers 	Nd 	No
Promethium 	61 	Atomic batteries, source of x-rays 	Pm 	Yes
Samarium 	62 	Powerful magnets used in electronics, infrared-absorbing glass 	Sm 	No
Europium 	63 	Red and blue phosphors in CRT televisions, anti-counterfeit measure in Euro banknotes	Eu 	No
Gadolinium 	64 	Increasing contrast in MRI scans, heat- and oxidation-resistant alloys 	Gd 	No
Terbium 	65 	Fluorescent lights, solid-state devices, loudspeakers 	Tb 	No
Dysprosium 	66 	Nuclear control rods, halide discharge lamps 	Dy 	No
Holmium 	67 	High strength magnets, nuclear reactors 	Ho 	No
Erbium 	68 	Photographic filters, pink glass, broadband signals 	Er 	No
Thulium 	69 	Lasers, x-ray machines 	Tm 	No
Ytterbium 	70 	Strengthening stainless steel, memory devices 	Yb 	No
Lutetium 	71 	Lights in LEDs, refining oil 	Lu 	No
==Actinides==
Element 	Atomic Number	Use(s) 	Symbol	Radioactive?
Actinium 	89 	Radio-immunotherapy 	Ac 	Yes
Thorium 	90 	Lantern mantles, high-quality lenses, alloys with magnesium 	Th 	Yes
Protactinium	91 	None 	Pa 	Yes
Uranium 	92 	Nuclear power, radiometric dating, yellow ceramic glaze 	U 	Yes
Neptunium 	93 	Neutron detection equipment 	Np 	Yes
Plutonium 	94 	Old pacemakers, some nuclear bombs 	Pu 	Yes
Americium 	95 	Smoke detectors, source of gamma rays 	Am 	Yes
Curium 	96 	Powering equipment used on space missions 	Cm 	Yes
Berkelium 	97 	None 	Bk 	Yes
Californium 	98 	Portable metal detectors, finding underground water and petroleum, strong neutron emitter	Cf 	Yes
Einsteinium 	99 	Found in debris created by hydrogen bombs 	Es 	Yes
Fermium 	100 	Experimental radiotherapy, heaviest element that can be created in a nuclear reactor 	Fm 	Yes
Mendelevium 	101 	None 	Md 	Yes
Nobelium 	102 	None 	No 	Yes
Lawrencium 	103 	None 	Lr 	Yes
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