Hydrogen - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic …
It has the lowest density of all gases. Uses. Some see hydrogen gas as the clean fuel of the future – generated from water and returning to water when it is oxidised. Hydrogen-powered fuel …
Lithium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Lithium is a soft, silvery-white, metal that heads group 1, the alkali metals group, of the periodic table of the elements. It reacts vigorously with water. Storing it is a problem. It cannot be kept …
Nitrogen - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Nitrogen is important for plant growth and can be ‘fixed’ by lightning or added to soils in fertilisers. Appearance. A colourless, odourless gas. Uses. Nitrogen is important to the chemical industry. …
Silicon - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Uses. Silicon is one of the most useful elements to mankind. Most is used to make alloys including aluminium-silicon and ferro-silicon (iron-silicon). These are used to make dynamo …
Radium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Radium was discovered in 1898 by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. They managed to extract 1 mg of radium from ten tonnes of the uranium ore pitchblende (uranium oxide, U 3 O 8), a …
Oxygen - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Oxygen. 8. 15.999. Glossary. GroupA vertical column in the periodic table. Members of a group typically have similar properties and electron configurations in their outer shell. PeriodA …
Calcium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Calcium is a silvery-white, soft metal that tarnishes rapidly in air and reacts with water. Uses. Calcium metal is used as a reducing agent in preparing other metals such as thorium and …
Phosphorus - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic …
Nina Notman. Phosphorus is a non-metal that sits just below nitrogen in group 15 of the periodic table. This element exists in several forms, of which white and red are the best known. White …
Caesium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table
Caesium is a soft, gold-coloured metal that is quickly attacked by air and reacts explosively in water. Uses. The most common use for caesium compounds is as a drilling fluid. They are …
Potassium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic …
Potassium. 19. 39.098. Glossary. GroupA vertical column in the periodic table. Members of a group typically have similar properties and electron configurations in their outer shell. PeriodA …