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Aluminum | A light metal used in making airplanes, buildings, pots and pans, etc. |
Bromine | Used in photography, medicines, insecticides, etc. |
Calcium | A soft, metallic chemical element found in limestone, marble, chalk, etc. |
Carbon | Found in coal, oil, gas, living things, and inks |
Chlorine | Used in bleach, in chemical to kill germs in swimming pools, and found with the element sodium in table salt |
Chromium | A shiny metal usde on bumpers of some cars, household fixtures, etc |
Copper | A metal used for electric wires, pots, pans, and pennies |
Gold | A metal used for jewelry and precious decorative pieces |
Helium | A gas much lighter in air used in blimps and balloons |
Hydrogen | A flammable and explosive gas |
Iodine | Used on cuts and wounds to kill germs |
Iron | A strong metal used in the construction of buildings, steel, and machines |
Lead | A metal used in automobile batteries and in fishing and diving weights |
Mercury | A heavy, poisonous liquid used in some thermometers |
Nickel | A metal used in coins |
Nitrogen | The main gas in the air, also used as fertilizer |
Oxygen | A gas nessesary for respiration; aids burning |
Platinum | An expensive metal used in jewelry |
Potassium | Found in fertilizers |
Silicon | Used in electronics and in compounds for making glass |
Silver | Used in tableware, jewelry, photography, medicines, and coins |
Sodium | soft metal that combines with chlorine to make table salt |
Tin | Used to make cans |
Tungsten | A metal used in light bulb filaments |
Uranium | A metal used in some nuclear reactions |
Zinc | A metal that prevents rust and is used in dry cell batteries |
Radium | Self-luminous plants |
Plutonium | Nuclear weapons |
Krypton | Flourescent lights |
Phosphorus | found in fertilizers |
Fluorine | Prevents tooth decay |
Argon | Light Bulbs |