The Periodic Table

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Summary: My favorite element is Bismuth. You may be wondering how this has to do with the Periodic Table and what i've learned; but what if I told you it has everything to do with it?! Bismuth is one of the 118 elements on your current periodic table.  The periodic table may look pretty messy and you may have trouble even finding this element on it but fear not it is not as complex as it seems. The periodic has order to all is madness for example it is made up of rows and columns. Each row represent energy levels. For example the top row with Hydrogen and helium is row 1 becasue it only had 1 energy level in its atoms. Next we have columns and these columns represent families.  Bismuth is a part of the "other metals family" This family consists of  Aluminium,  Bismuth, Gallium, Indium, Lead,Thallium, and Tin. How are these ever related? Well that's becasue the all react similarly just like a family would. They share traits!

S&EP: This week we used mathematics. I have been taught from a young age that mathematics is the center of everything. Well in Chemistry you couldn't be more right. You can think of the elements as the pieces hat make up the world around us. They are your water, you ai, and more. In Chemistry we use math to define theses pieces of our world. For example we see that a hydrogen  particle is different from a helium becasue of the addition of protons and neutrons. We also can organize these pieces using those electrons n the outside of the nucleus. Math is so important to this world especially to the worlds building blocks.

XCC: This week we used Systems and System models. Systems are everywhere. It is how we understand things and in this cause how we understand the Periodic Table. As I said before our table is set up in rows and columns. Well lets look at those rows. So what is an energy level? Well and energy level is a level of electrons outside of the nucleus of and atom. These energy levels have rules. Each energy level except the first can only hold up to * electrons. Once that level is filled to 8 then it full. These energy levels can determine two things. One what row of the periodic table that element will be put on. Also it could represent wat elements that element can combine with. For example we can have one Hydrogen. This hydrogen has only 1 energy level and one electron. SO the only thing that can mis with this is another Hydrogen. This would make it full since the first energy level only hold 2!