Common Elements and Their Uses

Name the 28 elements, by their uses

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Element	Uses
Aluminum	A light metal used in making airplanes, buildings, pots & pans, etc.
Bromine	Used in photography, medicines, insecticides, etc.
Calcium	A soft, metallic chemical element found in limestone, marble, chalk, etc.
Carbon	Found in coal, oil gas, living things, & inks
Chlorine	Used in bleach, in chemicals to kill germs in swimming pools, & found with the element sodium in table salt
Chromium	A shiny metal used on bumpers of some cars, household fixtures, etc.
Copper	A metal used for electric wires, pots, pans, & pennies
Gold	A metal used for jewelry & precious decorative pieces
Helium	A gas much lighter than air used in blimps & balloons
Hydrogen	A flammable & explosive gas
Iodine	Used on cuts & wounds to kill germs
Iron	A strong metal used in the construction of buildings, steel, & machines
Lead	A metal used in automobile batteries & in fishing & diving weights
Mercury	A heavy, poisonous liquid used in some thermometers
Neon	A gas used in many lights & signs
Nickel	A metal used in coins
Nitrogen	The main gas in the air, also used in fertilizers
Oxygen	A gas necessary for respiration; aids burning
Platinum	An expensive metal used in jewelry
Potassium	Found in fertilizers
Silicon	Used in electronics & in compounds for making glass
Silver	Used in tableware, jewelry, photography, medicines, & coins
Sodium	Soft metal that combines with chlorine to make table salt
Sulfur	Used to make sulfuric acid & some medicines such as pet powders
Tin	Used to make cans
Tungsten	A metal used in light bulb filaments
Uranium	A metal used in some nuclear reactions
Zinc	A metal that prevents rust & is used in dry cell batterie