Common Elements and Their Uses

A light metal used in making airplanes, buildings, pots & pans, etc.

Used in photography, medicines, insecticides, etc.

A soft, metallic chemical element found in limestone, marble, chalk, etc.

Found in coal, oil gas, living things, & inks

Used in bleach, in chemicals to kill germs in swimming pools, & found with the element sodium in table salt

A shiny metal used on bumpers of some cars, household fixtures, etc.

A metal used for electric wires, pots, pans, & pennies

A metal used for jewelry & precious decorative pieces

A gas much lighter than air used in blimps & balloons

A flammable & explosive gas

Used on cuts & wounds to kill germs

A strong metal used in the construction of buildings, steel, & machines

A metal used in automobile batteries & in fishing & diving weights

A heavy, poisonous liquid used in some thermometers

A gas used in many lights & signs

A metal used in coins

The main gas in the air, also used in fertilizers

A gas necessary for respiration; aids burning

An expensive metal used in jewelry

Found in fertilizers

Used in electronics & in compounds for making glass

Used in tableware, jewelry, photography, medicines, & coins

Soft metal that combines with chlorine to make table salt

Used to make sulfuric acid & some medicines such as pet powders

Used to make cans

A metal used in light bulb filaments

A metal used in some nuclear reactions

A metal that prevents rust & is used in dry cell batterie