Monday, January 10, 2011

Day One

What do the numbers represent?
Upper Left numbers?: Atomic Number; it keeps track of the number of protons.
Upper Right numbers?: Atomic Mass; is the weight of the atom.

Mg- What is this? Magnesium  The letters represent the symbol for each element.

What is the difference between Na & K?
Na: Salt
K: Potassium
The difference between these is that their chemical composition, color, and density are different.  They both have a different atomic number as well as a different atomic mass. 


http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
http://en.loadtr.com/Periodic_Table_could_have-438617.htm

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