Metals and Nonmetals - Page 2
Questions
- Do metals react with acids? If so, what products are most typically formed?
- How do electrons behave in metals? Do metals have a negative charge?
- Is sulfur a metal, metalloid, or nonmetal? What is its family name?
- Do nonmetals tend to form positive or negative ions?
- Why do transition metals have high densities?
- Which elements in the nitrogen group are metals, nonmetals, or metalloids?
- Nonmetals tend to form what ions?
- How does the location of hydrogen on the periodic table differ from other nonmetals?
- What are two physical properties that make metals the ideal material from which to construct electrical wires?
- What are the physical characteristics of nonmetals?
- What are the 17 nonmetals on the periodic table?
- Where are the metals and nonmetals found in the periodic table?
- What is true of all metals?
- How is steel an improvement over iron?
- What are the general properties of alkali metals?
- Fires from combustible metals produce what type of fire?
- Where are the most active nonmetals located?
- Do metals tend to form positive or negative ions?
- How many nonmetals are there in the periodic table?
- Are metals or nonmetals better conductors of electric current? Why?