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8.1 Periodic table

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Total cards: 17•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

How is periodic table structured

Back (Answer)

List of elements in order of atomic number. Metals on left, transition metals in centre, non metals on right. Metalloids run diagonal, splitting metals and non metals

#2
Front (Question)

How are metals and non metals split

Back (Answer)

staircase line: divides them. Metalloids touch this line, eg Silicon, which have a combination of metallic and non metallic properties

#3
Front (Question)

What did Mendeleev do

Back (Answer)

. Realised there were undiscovered elements, so left gaps for them . . Arranged the known ones, so similar ones lined up in columns . Since then new ones were discovered which fit the gaps, so he predicted the properties of missing elements

#4
Front (Question)

Lanthanides and actinides

Back (Answer)

The bottom block of the periodic table, they’re omitted

#5
Front (Question)

Where is the s block of periodic table, what is it

Back (Answer)

Far left, group 1 and 2 Elements that have their highest energy electrons in s orbitals are in the s block

#6
Front (Question)

Where is p block of periodic table What is it

Back (Answer)

Far right, group 3,4,5,6,7,0 Elements that have their highest energy electrons in p orbitals are called p block

#7
Front (Question)

Where is d block What is it

Back (Answer)

Centre, transition metals Elements that have their highest energy electrons in the d orbitals are the d block

#8
Front (Question)

Where is F block What is it

Back (Answer)

Under periodic table, the lanthanides and actinides. Elements that have their highest energy electrons in f orbitals.

#9
Front (Question)

Why are transition metal elements and d block not the same

Back (Answer)

. Scandium and zinc aren’t transition metals because they don’t form any compounds that have partly filled d orbitals, which is the characteristic of transition metals.

#10
Front (Question)

Why are they called S, D, P,F blocks How do you remember the order

Back (Answer)

When elements are heated they give out light energy at certain wavelengths, and as excited electrons fall back from one energy level to another. This causes lines to appear on spectrum of light they give out. Letters stand for words given to describe the light eg d for diffuse Super duper power

#11
Front (Question)

What is a group

Back (Answer)

Vertical column of elements, elements in the same group have similar properties, and same number of electrons on outer shell.

#12
Front (Question)

How does reactivity in S block change down the group

Back (Answer)

Elements get more reactive going down group

#13
Front (Question)

How does Reactivity change down the P block

Back (Answer)

Elements get more reactive going up the group

#14
Front (Question)

Transition metal reactivity/ d block

Back (Answer)

They’re all quite unreactive, lots of useful metals are found here

#15
Front (Question)

Actinide properties

Back (Answer)

All radioactive eg uranium and thorium form naturally in earths crust

#16
Front (Question)

What are periods

Back (Answer)

. Horizontal rows of elements eg period 1 only has hydrogen and helium

#17
Front (Question)

How are hydrogen and helium placed

Back (Answer)

. Helium above noble gases because of its properties, but it isn’t a p block element, its electron arrangement is 1s^2 . Hydrogen is above group 1, and forms 1+ ions (H+) like the group 1s. However hydrogen is a gas, and not a metal.