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actinium attinio A radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores

aluminum alluminio A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

americium americio A radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding urani

antimony antimonio A metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of

argon ARGO A colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises

arsenic arsenico A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic

barium bario A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

beryllium berillio A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element

boron boro A trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in

bromine bromo A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liqui

cadmium cadmio A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occ

calcium calcio A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most

carbon carbonio An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic f

cesium cesio A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures

chlorine cloro A common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a he

chromium cromo A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element; resistant to corro

cobalt cobalto A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element;

copper rame A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic

fluorine fluoro A nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yello

gallium gallio A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temper

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