Geography is Destiny
The periodic table is made up elements that are arranged in eighteen columns and seven rows. These columns and rows are also known as periods and groups. If you were to remove any of these elements from the places there were currently sitting in then the whole table could crumble and destroy everything! Seventy five percent of the table is metals which means that they are mostly cold solids that are gray. There are some gases and only two liquids at room temperature, those being Mercury and Bromine. The last column os the table are the Noble gases. Some elements in this section are Helium, and Argon. Another section of the table would be the Halogens. Some of these are chlorine, which is very commonly used in pools, bromine and iodine. Transition metals are metals such as Sodium and Magnesium who both have the same number of electrons are the same as their atomic numbers. Alkali metals, including Lithium, Sodium, and Potassium are metals that usually have low boiling and melting points. They also have low densities and are so soft that you could probably cut easily with a knife.
"Noble" for Noble gases comes from the birthplace of Western philosophy, ancient Greece. Plato created the word 'element' to represent a general term for small particles of matter, in Greek, this word was Stoicheia. In 1911 a Scientist was cooling Mercury with liquid Helium when he then found that when below -452 degrees, the system lost all electrical resistance, becoming an ideal conductor. When taken down 4 more degrees helium would suddenly turn into a superfluid and and defy gravity. This would give it the ability to flow upwards a hill and over walls. Metals, specifically alkali metals, can spontaneously combust into air or water. Some elements however, can be dangerous and even deadly. For example, in the sixth century, the king who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon named Nebuchardnezzar used a noxious antimony-lead mix paint to paint his walls yellow. Shortly after he began to go mad sleeping outdoors, and eating the grass from outside as if he were a cow. Other incidents include Egyptian women using another form of antimony as mascara and using it to cast evil eye on their enemies, and in Medieval times, monks- including Isaac Newton believed that this antimony was a Hermaphrodite.