What information can you get from the periodic table about an indiviual element?

Answer 1

ex.

8 16.00

O

Oxygen

It's name is Oxygen

The table shows the fact that it is a non-metal

8 is the Atomic Number(The number of protons in one atom of the element)

16 is the Atomic Mass(Total number of protons and neutrons in one atom of the element)

Another way to tell the Atomic Number and the Atomic Mass is that the Atomic Number is always smaller then the number of Atomic Mass

Proton:8

Electron:8

Neutron:8

We know the number of proton and electron from the atomic number.

The number of electon is always the same as the number of proton.

So the atomic number is 8 and the number of proton and electron is 8

To know the number of neutron, we have to do some math.

Atomic Mass equal the number of protons puls neutrons.

So we have to take the number of Atomic Number MINUS Atomic Mass.

16 - 8 = 8

So the number of neutron is 8.

From the Periodic Table, we can also know the name of the element and what is it called in the scientic way.

It also shows the configuration of electrons based on its location in the table.