Elements - Chemistry

Chemicals of Importance

General
Metals and Alloys
Other topics
Group I
Group II

Group III
Group IV
Sulphur
Group VII
Group VIII

General

ChemiCool
- click on any element in the Periodic table to see many of its properties (data form). There is also a Chemistry dictionary but its accuracy should be cross-checked with another source

Periodic Table of Elements
-click on the Periodic Table for properties of elements. Also includes information about each.

Chem4Kids
- information about the first 36 elements

Metals and Alloys

Chem4Kids - Metals

An introduction to metallic materials
- good description of metals and alloys

What is an alloy?
- information on precious metal alloys for jewellery, etc

Other topics

Some facts about water
- many pages of info – skim and pick out the most important topics by heading

Water use in Australia
- fact sheet

Properties of salt
- properties of salt and important chemicals made from salt

Properties of sugar

Sulfuric acid - fact sheet

Sulfur dioxide - fact sheet

Sulfur dioxide - information sheet

Nitric acid

Nitric acid
- background information, physical and chemical properties, common uses, sources of emission, health and environmental effects

Facts about ammonia
- technical information, physical and chemical properties, uses, health effects and treatment of exposure to ammonia

Elements in the Earth's crust
- information on the 8 most common elements found in the Earth's crust - oxygen, silica, aluminium, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium

Element abundance in the Earth's crust

Recycling importance of Gold and Lead

Group I

Alkali metals
- excellent information and quite readable

Alkali metals
- from Chem4Kids website

Groups in the periodic Table
- look at Ia - Alkali metals only