Use your periodic table of elements. Take any element from the first column, except for hydrogen and lithium, and answer the following questions: What is the element's name and symbol?
Is it a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid?
Which family does it belong to?
How many protons, neutrons, and electrons does its neutral atom have?

Which statement correctly describes metallic bonds? a. they form when certain atoms lose electrons and other atoms gain electrons. b. they involve an attraction between anions and cations. they always involvpoth a metal and a nonmetal. d. they can only form between atoms of the same element. e. they form because electrons can move freely between atoms.

6. using 3 – 4 sentences explain (in your own words) why water expands when it freezes? 7. using your knowledge of colligative properties explain whether sodium chloride or calcium chloride would be a more effective substance to melt the ice on a slick sidewalk. use 3 – 4 sentences in your explanation.

Which reason best explains why metals are malleable? a)because they have delocalized electrons b)because they have localized electrons c)because they have ionic bonds d)because they have rigid bonds