Unit 3 - Periodic Table: TRANSITION ELEMENTS

Question 1

What are transition metals?

Answer 1

Typical metals which have the properties you would expect of a proper metal

Question 2

What properties do these elements have? (not compared with group 1)

Answer 2

• Good conductors of heat and electricity
• Hard and strong
• Have high densities
• high melting points (except mercury)

Question 3

What properties do these elements have compared with group 1 metals?

Answer 3

• Higher melting points
• Denser, stronger and harder
• Less reactive (don’t react as vigourously with oxygen/water)

Question 4

Transition metals and their solutions are..

Answer 4

Coloured

Useful catalysts

Question 5

Transition metals can often form..

Answer 5

ions with different charges