List of elements in the periodic table

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This is a list of the elements listed in the periodic table.

Hydrogen

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Hydrogen	1	Blowing up the Hindenburg, water, acidity, composing the vast majority of the universe's matter, and present in almost as many compounds as carbon	H	No

Alkali metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Lithium	3	making rechargeable batteries, treating bipolar disorder	Li	No
Sodium	11	explodes when touching water, table salt, baking soda, important in cell osmosis	Na	No
Potassium	19	Fertilizers, important for brains to function, K-40 is famously radioactive	K	No
Rubidium	37	In very precise clocks, photocells, purple-red fireworks	Rb	No
Cesium	55	atomic clocks, ion propulsion systems, vacuum tubes, softest metal in its pure form	Cs	No
Francium	87		Fr	Yes

Alkaline earth metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Beryllium	4	strong but lightweight material, gyroscopes, accelerometers, missiles, emeralds	Be	No
Magnesium	12	Most used metal after steel and aluminum, present in chlorophyll, alloys, cars, planes, electronics, batteries, asbestos	Mg	No
Calcium	20	bones, cement, limestone, gypsum, antacids, plays an important role in the carbon cycle	Ca	No
Strontium	38	red fireworks, glass in old-fashioned CRT televisions	Sr	No
Barium	56	drilling fluid, rat poison, medical imaging	Ba	No
Radium	88	Being dangerously radioactive, decays to even-deadlier radon, was a fad in the early 20th century	Ra	Yes

Transition metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Scandium	21	When you need tools, bicycles, baseball bats	Sc	No
Titanium	22	strong but lightweight, artificial bones, aircraft parts, non-toxic white paint	Ti	No
Vanadium	23	In tools; shock-, vibration-, and neutron-resistant alloys; catalyst for sulfuric acid	V	No
Chromium	24	Chrome plating, stainless steel, rubies, tanning leather	Cr	No
Manganese	25	Alloying with steel and aluminum, certain enzymes	Mn	No
Iron	26	ferromagnetic, Earth's magnetic field, (electro)magnets, steel, hemoglobin, blue ink, good conductor of heat and electricity, end of the line in stellar nucleosynthesis	Fe	No
Cobalt	27	ferromagnetic, coloring glass blue, jet turbines	Co	No
Nickel	28	in currency, certain kinds of stainless steel, corrosion-resistant	Ni	No
Copper	29	coins, good conductor of heat and electricity, industrial equipment; The first metal humans smelted	Cu	No
Zinc	30	In currency, brass, luminous paint, plating (galvanizing steel)	Zn	No
Yttrium	39	Forms YBCO, microwave filters in radars	Y	No
Zirconium	40	Fake diamonds, tubing in nuclear reactors, ultra-strong ceramics	Zr	No
Niobium	41	Piercings, NMR equipment, destroying Congo's economy (with tantalum)	Nb	No
Molybdenum	42	Alloys, maglevs, generating technetium	Mo	No
Technetium	43	Nuclear medicine	Tc	Yes
Ruthenium	44	olefin metathesis, chip resistors	Ru	No
Rhodium	45	Plating cheap jewelry, catalytic converters in cars, having a very unstable market value	Rh	No
Palladium	46	Imitating silver, catalytic converters, ceramic capacitors, cross-coupling reactions	Pd	No
Silver	47	Mirrors, great conductor of heat and electricity, coins, anti-bacterial fabrics, killing werewolves	Ag	No
Cadmium	48	Yellow, carcinogenic pigment, fission-controlling rods	Cd	No
Hafnium	72	Plasma torches, control rods in nuclear submarines	Hf	No
Tantalum	73	Capacitors, surgical implants, turbine blades, destroying Congo's economy (with niobium)	Ta	No
Tungsten	74	Incredibly high melting point, mining drills, lightbulbs/globes, armor-piecing shells	W	No
Rhenium	75	Alloys, thin wires, rarest stable element	Re	No
Osmium	76	Alloying with iridium, fountain pens; most dense metal	Os	No
Iridium	77	Spark plug electrodes, photocatalysis, common in meteorites; metal most resistant to corrosion	Ir	No
Platinum	78	Jewelry, optical fibres, hard disks, being really expensive catalysis	Pt	No
Gold	79	Jewelry, high performance electrical contacts, highly ductile and malleable, scamming elderly people, money!!!	Au	No
Mercury	80	First planet from the sun Poison, thermometers, vermillion pigment, turning milliners insane, freaks anti-vaxxers out	Hg	No
Rutherfordium	104	None	Rf	Yes
Dubnium	105	None	Db	Yes
Seaborgium	106	None	Sg	Yes
Bohrium	107	None	Bh	Yes
Hassium	108	None	Hs	Yes
Meitnerium	109	None	Mt	Yes
Darmstadtium	110	None	Ds	Yes
Roentgenium	111	None	Rg	Yes
Copernicium	112	None	Cn	Yes

Semimetals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Boron	5	Borax, fiberglass, green color in fireworks	B	No
Silicon	14	Electronics, sand, glass, speculative life	Si	No
Germanium	32	Camera lenses, old transistors	Ge	No
Arsenic	33	Poison, doping semiconductors	As	No
Antimony	51	Alloying with lead, mascara used in ancient times, ridiculously corrosive acid	Sb	No
Tellurium	52	In DVDs, solar cells	Te	No

Other Nonmetals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Carbon	6	Terrestrial life, High efficiency fuel, Plastic, dietary fats, carbs, and fibers, global warming, pencils, reducing iron ore to iron, steel, present in 95% of known compounds	C	No
Nitrogen	7	Air, protein, ammonia, fertilizer, having a really low boiling point, dynamite	N	No
Phosphorus	15	Fertilizer, matches, DNA, phospholipid bilayers, baking powder, making meth	P	No

Post-transition metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Aluminum	13	Airplanes, foil, beverage cans, thermite, coins that aren't worth their weight in zinc	Al	No
Gallium	31	LEDs, having a low melting point	Ga	No
Indium	49	Thermometers, LCDs, quantum computers	In	No
Tin	50	Many alloys, including bronze, pewter and solder	Sn	No
Thallium	81	Poison, low temperature thermometers	Tl	No
Lead	82	Pipes, paint, gasoline additive Poison, bullets, specialized glass, vehicle batteries, radiation shielding	Pb	No
Bismuth	83	Pepto-Bismol, fire extinguishers, beautiful crystals	Bi	Yes(technically)The most common isotope is much less radioactive than... YOU!
Polonium	84	Assassinating ex-FSB agents, antistatic devices	Po	Yes
Nihonium	113	None	Nh	Yes
Flerovium	114	None	Fv	Yes
Moscovium	115	UFOs None	Mc	Yes
Livermorium	116	None	Lv	Yes

Chalcogens

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Oxygen	8	Cellular respiration, fire, antifreeze, 65% of the mass of the human body	O	No
Sulfur	16	Creating face-melting acid, pesticides, rotten egg smell	S	No
Selenium	34	Glass production, photocopiers, anti-dandruff shampoo	Se	No

Halogens

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Fluorine	9	Toothpaste, Teflon, violent reactivity, separating uranium isotopes	F	No
Chlorine	17	Table salt, disinfecting swimming pools, PVC, chloroform, chemical weapons	Cl	No
Bromine	35	Disinfectant, flame retardants	Br	No
Iodine	53	Antiseptic, dyes, nutritional suplements	I	No
Astatine	85	Being the rarest naturally occurring element	At	Yes
Tennessine	117	None	Ts	Yes

Noble gases

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Helium	2	In balloons, blimps and zeppelins, shielding gas, coolant for MRI and NMR, gas chromatography, jokes about pitch-shifts; liquid helium has interesting properties and is one of the coolest materials known to science	He	No
Neon	10	Gaudy casinos, lasers	Ne	No
Argon	18	Shield gas for substances that oxidize easily, fluorescent bulbs, third most common gas in Earth's atmosphere	Ar	No
Krypton	36	Superman's home planet Incandescent bulbs, high-speed photography, determining the standard measurement of length	Kr	No
Xenon	54	Galactic ruler of Scientology fame Highly efficient, electrically-powered ion thrusters on satellites, microprocessors	Xe	No
Radon	86	Leading cause of lung cancer that isn't smoking or asbestos	Rn	Yes
Oganesson	118	None	Og	Yes

Rare Earth metals

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Lanthanum	57	Flints, studio lighting, anodes of batteries used in hybrid cars	La	No
Cerium	58	Lighter flints, floodlights, non-toxic red pigment	Ce	No
Praseodymium	59	Coloring glass yellow, aircraft engines	Pr	No
Neodymium	60	Very strong magnets, laser pointers	Nd	No
Promethium	61	Atomic batteries, source of x-rays	Pm	Yes
Samarium	62	Powerful magnets used in electronics, infrared-absorbing glass	Sm	No
Europium	63	Red and blue phosphors in CRT televisions, anti-counterfeit measure in Euro banknotes	Eu	No
Gadolinium	64	Increasing contrast in MRI scans, heat- and oxidation-resistant alloys	Gd	No
Terbium	65	Fluorescent lights, solid-state devices, loudspeakers	Tb	No
Dysprosium	66	Nuclear control rods, halide discharge lamps	Dy	No
Holmium	67	High strength magnets, nuclear reactors	Ho	No
Erbium	68	Photographic filters, pink glass, broadband signals	Er	No
Thulium	69	Lasers, x-ray machines	Tm	No
Ytterbium	70	Strengthening stainless steel, memory devices	Yb	No
Lutetium	71	Lights in LEDs, refining oil	Lu	No

Actinides

Element	Atomic Number	Use(s)	Symbol	Radioactive?
Actinium	89	Radio-immunotherapy	Ac	Yes
Thorium	90	Lantern mantles, high-quality lenses, alloys with magnesium	Th	Yes
Protactinium	91	None	Pa	Yes
Uranium	92	Nuclear power, radiometric dating, yellow ceramic glaze	U	Yes
Neptunium	93	Neutron detection equipment	Np	Yes
Plutonium	94	Old pacemakers, some nuclear bombs	Pu	Yes
Americium	95	Smoke detectors, source of gamma rays	Am	Yes
Curium	96	Powering equipment used on space missions	Cm	Yes
Berkelium	97	None	Bk	Yes
Californium	98	Portable metal detectors, finding underground water and petroleum, strong neutron emitter	Cf	Yes
Einsteinium	99	Found in debris created by hydrogen bombs	Es	Yes
Fermium	100	Experimental radiotherapy, heaviest element that can be created in a nuclear reactor	Fm	Yes
Mendelevium	101	None	Md	Yes
Nobelium	102	None	No	Yes
Lawrencium	103	None	Lr	Yes