The periodic table ... The three common Group 7 elements are chlorine, bromine and iodine. The word ‘halogen’ means 'salt former'. Group 0 and testing ions Flame tests identify alkali metal ...

Figure 1: The generation of a cation. Credit: Technology Networks. Elements in group 18 of the periodic table – the “noble gases”, tend not to form ions due to the arrangement of their electrons which ...

Heavy ion bombardment of actinides at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russian Federation, added elements 104 to 106 to the ...