A Fast-Paced Card Game About The Elements Page 5
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16H
1 He
2
Li
3
Hydrogen
1.0
Helium
4.0
Lithium
6.9
Greek: “hydro–gen” (water-maker)
Greek: “helios” (sun)
Greek: “lithos” (stone)
very small
batteries
• Used in balloons, blimps and scubing
• Used in batteries, lubricants, medicines,
• Has no neutrons.
diving tanks.
and nuclear bombs.
• Most abundant element in the Universe.
• Discovered in the sun in 1895 using a
• Is never found by itself in nature (it’s
• Used in rocket fuel and fuel cells.
spectrometer.
always in a compound).
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Be
5
B
4
C
Boron
10.8
Beryllium
9.0
Carbon
12.0
from the compound “borax”
Latin: “carbo” (charcoal)
from the mineral “beryl”
• Diamonds, graphite and coal are all made of
• Found in emeralds.
carbon.
• Used to make heat-resistant glass.
• Is mixed with copper to make
• Carbon makes long chains (polymers) that
• Used to make boric acid, which is used as
“beryllium bronze,” an alloy that will
are the basis of fossil fuels and plastics.
an antiseptic eye wash.
• Carbon is necessary for organic molecules
not create sparks.
• Used in nuclear power plants.
found in living organisms.
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9
N
7
O
F
Nitrogen
14.0
Oxygen
15.9
Fluorine
18.9
Greek: “nitron” (the mineral saltpetre)
Greek: “oxy-gen” (acid-maker)
Latin: “fluere” (to flow)
• Most of the air we breathe is nitrogen.
• Used in air bags in cars.
• Found in air, water and sand.
• Found in the mineral fluorite.
• Doctors use liquid nitrogen
• Necessary for respiration and
• Is put into toothpaste to fight cavities.
to treat skin conditions.
combustion.
• Used as a coolant.
• Proteins and DNA contain nitrogen.
• Ozone is made of pure oxygen.
• Used in nuclear power plants.
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