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What are elements in the same column of periodic table called?

Elements in the same column of the periodic table are called "groups" or "families". They share similar chemical properties due to having the same number of valence electrons, which influences their reactivity and behavior.


What is a family of an element in the periodic table?

A family of elements (Or Chemical Family) is used to describe a group of related elements. For example, copper, silver, and gold all belong to the same chemical family. These 3 elements are often referred to as the coinage metals. These elements share several common properties.


What is special about all the elements listed in a vertical column or group on the periodic table?

The electron configuration in the outer shell is the same for all of the elements in the same column. This results in some similar chemical properties between these elements in the same group (column).


What is a colunm in the periodic table?

A column in the periodic table is called a group or a family. Elements within the same group share similar chemical properties due to having the same number of valence electrons. There are 18 groups in the periodic table.


What does the element aluminum's family have in common on the periodic table?

Aluminum's family is called the Boron family because it is the first element in the column. They all have three electrons in the outer valance shell and all but Uut (recently discovered) were discovered in the 1800's. Most of the elements also go through Beta decay, but not all. The group consits of poor metals with the exeption of Born, which is a metalloid.

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What are elements in the same column of periodic table called?

Elements in the same column of the periodic table are called "groups" or "families". They share similar chemical properties due to having the same number of valence electrons, which influences their reactivity and behavior.


What are elements in a column called?

The elements in the 8 main columns of the Pperiodic Table are called Groups. Groups 1 and 2 are separated from Groups 3 to 8 by a block of elements called the Transition Series and the columns in this series have no specific names.


What is a family of element?

A family of elements is a group (column) of the Periodic Table. The family of an element is the column it is in in the Periodic Table. In a family of elements, they all have similar properties. An Example of a Family of Elements;The Alkali Metals - Group 1LithiumSodiumPotassiumRubidiumCaesiumFrancium


What is the term used to describe all the elements that are in the same vertical column on the periodic table?

The term used is group. It is also called family.


What is a family of an element in the periodic table?

A family of elements (Or Chemical Family) is used to describe a group of related elements. For example, copper, silver, and gold all belong to the same chemical family. These 3 elements are often referred to as the coinage metals. These elements share several common properties.


What is the difference3 between a family of elements and elements in the same period?

a family is a column of elements a period is a row of elements


Why are the elements in the same column on the periodic table commonly reffered to as a family?

They all have the same number of electrons


What is a family in chemistry?

A family is a vertical column in the periodic table. Elements in a family all share similar characteristics. There are 18 families in the periodic table.


What is the same for all elements in a column?

they have the same number of valence electrons


What is the signification of the vertical columns of the periodic table?

The vertical columns called "groups" contain a family of elements i.e., all elements present in a group or family (or the vertical column of a periodic table) have similar chemical properties due to the same number of valence electrons.


What is a family on the periodic table?

A family is a column in a periodic table; all elements in a family have similar physical and chemical properties, because they have the same numbers of valence electrons (outer electrons).


What are atoms with the same number of electrons in their outer energy level?

A vertical column of elements in the periodic table is called a group or family. Elements in a family share chemical properties. Some families, such as the halogens and noble gases, have specific names. They are also known as groups.