You really do not unless your daily work concerns the chemistry of different elements. It is never hard to find a periodic table of elements around a chemistry lab or office.
A PERIOD. NB A columns down the table is a GROUP.
Noble gases (or group 18 elements)
The elements in group 17 are known by the name halogens. They are non-metal elements and are at times referred to as salts.
Group 1 Metals
Potassium is in group 1 and the group elements are hydrogen, lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium
A group.
Another name for Group 17 (VIIA) Elements is Halogens.
Chromium Group
A PERIOD. NB A columns down the table is a GROUP.
Noble gases (or group 18 elements)
The elements in group 17 are known by the name halogens. They are non-metal elements and are at times referred to as salts.
transition metals
Group IA or group 1 elements are known as alkali metals.
Group 1 Metals
The group is usually just called "the nitrogen group" or group 15 or group 5A, but the old-fashioned name for that group are the pnictogens.
The general name given to the elements of Group IA (1) is alkali metals.
'Halogen' word is from Classical Greek and means 'Salt Generator/Former'.