Suppose you read in the newspaper that a chemist in south america claims to have discovered a new element with an atomic number of 34. an extremely rare element, it was found in a sample recovered from the andes mountains. unfortunately, he has used up all of the sample in his analysis.

each chemical family is represented as a group or column on the periodic table. based on chemical properties, there are 6 types of chemical families. group 1 represents alkali metals, group 2 represents alkaline earth metals, groups 3 to 12 represent transition metals, groups 13 to 16 represent non-metals and other metals, group 17 represents halogens and group 18 represents noble gases.