Thursday 1/16/20

Today we finished looking at Groups 3-12: Transition Elements.  This group of elements has the quite a bit of uses because as you moved from left to right and from top to bottom on the periodic table you will notice that the density strength and melting points go up because the number of protons increase. We learned that these metals are used for building and they also provide color in our world.   We then moved on to the Lanthanide and Actinide Series which are at the bottom of the Periodic table.   These can be quite valuable because strong magnets and fuel for nuclear reactors can be made from these elements.