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Vertical groups are families. Bonding power is based upon the type of bond, the position of element in Periodic Table.

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What are groups in the periodic table?

Groups in the periodic table are vertical columns that contain elements with similar chemical properties. Elements in the same group have the same number of valence electrons, which determines their reactivity and chemical behavior. There are 18 groups in the periodic table.


What name is given to the elements in a vertical column on the periodic table?

The elements that are listed in vertical columns all share specific aspects. These aspects include having the same number of valence electrons and having similar chemical properties.


What does the periodic table show you about the elements?

It groups elements with similar properties in vertical columns


Why are the elements in vertical groups on the periodic table called families?

The elements in vertical group are called families because the elements possess same characteristics.


How does the periodic table of elements groug elements into families?

The vertical columns are groups or families. There are 18 such families.


What do vertical colums represent in the periodic table?

Physical and chemical properties change somewhat regularly across a period. Elements that are close to each other in the same period tend to be more similar than elements that are father apart.


Vertical columns of elements on the periodic table are called?

false The vertical columns are known as groups whereas the horizontal rows are known as periods.


Where do you find groups on a periodic table?

groups are the vertical columns on the periodic table


What are the vertical columns on the periodic chart called?

The vertical column in a periodic table is called "The Group" and there are 8 groups in the periodic table, I through O or VIII.They are called Groups or sometimes Families. For many the periodic table has 8 groups but when you also include the transition metals, then there are 18 groups which gives you a better understanding when you are working out the electron arrangement within the atom's structure.


What is the vertical row of the periodic table that consists of elements with similar characteristics called?

Groups, or Families.


What is the definition of a column in the periodic table of elements?

A vertical column is called a 'group.' A horizontal row is called a 'period,' thus the periodic table.


How do groups and periods on the periodic table differ?

Groups are vertical and contain chemical elements with similar properties; periods are horizontal.