A | B |
maleable | can be pounded flat |
ductile | can be stretched into wires |
conductor | good material for electricity and heat to move through |
metals | conductors, malleable, ductile |
brittle | breaks rather than bends |
doesn't move electricity or heat | non-conductor or insulator |
dull, non conductors, brittle | non metals as solids |
react with water--burn or explode | alkali metals |
combine with alkali metals to make salts | halogens |
tend not to bind with other elements | noble gasses |
smallest element | hydrogen |
sometimes conduct electricity | mettaloids |
smallest part of atom | electron |
part of atom with positive charge | proton |
tells you how many protons in an atom | atomic number |
tells you sum of protons and neutron in an atom | atomic mass or weight |