https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2017-04-25 19:10:14 UTC 2025-12-28 02:08:42 UTC hello@padlet.com 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168220832 Pure aluminium is a silvery-white metal with many desirable characteristics. It is light, nontoxic (as the metal), nonmagnetic and non sparking.]]> 2017-04-25 19:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168220832 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168479921 Calcium as the element is a grey silvery metal. The metal is rather hard. Calcium is an essential constituent of leaves, bones, teeth, and shells. Calcium is the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust and makes up more than 3% of the crust. ]]> 2017-04-26 19:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168479921 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168480623 Carbon is a Group 14 element and is distributed very widely in nature. It is found in abundance in the sun, stars, comets, and atmospheres of most planets. Carbon is present as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and dissolved in all natural waters.]]> 2017-04-26 19:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168480623 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168481241 Chlorine is a greenish yellow gas which combines directly with nearly all elements. Chlorine is a respiratory irritant. The gas irritates the mucous membranes and the liquid burns the skin. As little as 3.5 ppm can be detected as an odour, and 1000 ppm is likely to be fatal after a few deep breaths.]]> 2017-04-26 19:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168481241 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168482441 Copper appears in the periodic table at the top of Group 11 above silver and gold. Collectively these are sometimes referred to as the coinage metals, although in modern times these metals are used less frequently than in the past.]]> 2017-04-26 19:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168482441 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168483088
Most metals are metallic grey or silvery white whereas gold is characteristically a metallic yellow color, in other words gold-colored. Caesium is also gold colored. The gold color seems related to relativistic effects of the outermost gold orbitals.]]> 2017-04-26 19:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168483088 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168485646 Helium is one of the so-called noble gases. Helium gas is an unreactive, colorless, and odourless monoatomic gas. Helium is available in pressurised tanks.]]> 2017-04-26 19:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168485646 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168486520
Note that while hydrogen is normally shown at the top of the Group 1 elements in the periodic table, the term "alkaline metal" refers to the Group 1 elements from lithium downwards and not hydrogen.]]> 2017-04-26 19:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168486520 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168487007 Iron is a relatively abundant element in the universe. It is found in the sun and many types of stars in considerable quantity. Iron nuclei are very stable. Iron is a vital constituent of plant and animal life, and is the key component of haemoglobin.

]]> 2017-04-26 19:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168487007 300967 https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168487680 Krypton is present in the air at about 1 ppm. The atmosphere of Mars contains a little (about 0.3 ppm) of krypton. It is characterised by its brilliant green and orange spectral lines. The spectral lines of krypton are easily produced and some are very sharp. In 1960 it was internationally agreed that the fundamental unit of length, the metre, should be defined as 1 m = 1,650,763.73 wavelengths (in vacuo) of the orange-red line of Kr-33.]]> 2017-04-26 19:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/300967/kv5albf1dyqe/wish/168487680