Meaning & use
periodic table
A chart that organizes all known chemical elements by increasing atomic number and shared properties.
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Chemistry students memorize the periodic table to understand how elements react with each other.
Hydrogen sits at the very top of the periodic table as the lightest element.
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Elements in the same column, or group, of the periodic table tend to share similar chemical behavior.
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