Atomic Box Project (30 pts) due: December 17 Name: Sabina Bacino Per.

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You are going to make an atomic box for our classroom periodic table. Each box will
be 7 x 7 inches with a border. Each box should include this information:
o Atomic number (1 tall bright! )
o Atomic Symbol (2 tall bright!)
o Element Name (bold!)
o Melting point (C)

Fun fact

Uses

o Where your element is found (or mined)

o Who and when your element was discovered (if
known).

o Boiling point (C)

o Atomic mass or weight
o phase

o a radioactive symbol if your element is

radioactive

o Group (Alkali, Alkaline-Earth, Transition Metals, Boron

Group, Carbon Group, Nitrogen Group, Oxygen Group,
Halogen, Inert Gases, Lanthanide Series, Actinide Series)

o if its a metal, nonmetal, or semimetal

o Picture (hand drawn- of something your
element is used in)

Your Names and period in lower right hand

corner

A. Your Atomic box must have a border (no bigger than the background).
B. Your work must be neat and accurate!!!!! Your picture(s) must be hand
drawn of something made from your element. It should POP!
C. Your fun fact should be interesting and relevant, not some boring detail.
D. Make rough draft on back. Then I will give you colored paper according to
your elements atomic number. This is the background for your atomic box.
E. IMPORTANT!!!!! Use color! not Pencil! Consider gluing on
information. Type if handwriting is bad. But must be nicely glued on. Your
element should STAND out, not fade into the background!
F. You will make a short presentation of your element & box in class (5 pts).
1. Use the pages I provided you from The Elements by Albert Swertka and these websites:
http://ed.ted.com/periodic-videos
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html
http://www.webelements.com/
http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm
http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart.htm
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemistry-the-elements-revealed-interactiveperiodic-table/

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Science
Date: 12/9/14

Name: Sabina Bacino

Period: 3

Research for Atomic Box and Class Presentation

Here you can put research that you can use for your atomic box and also for your class
presentation. You will have more information here than you will put on your box!
Some of it you will save for your presentation and some will just be for your
knowledge!
1. Basic Periodic Table Information
2. Make sure it is correct!
Element Name: Yttruim
Atomic Number: 39
Atomic Mass: 88.906
Melting Point (in Celcius!): 1522C
Boiling Point (in Celcius!): 3345C
Phase: Solid
Metal, semimetal, non metal? Metal
Usually Radioactive? No, it is not considered radioactive.
Group: Transition Metals
3. Discovered Who discovered this element, when, where and how it was
discovered.
-Johan Gadolin, a Finnish chemist discovered it in a mineral called gadolinite
-gadolinite has many unusual minerals containing erbium, terbium, ytterbium, and
yttruim
-in 1794
-found in Ytterby, Sweden
-obtained in 1828 by Friedrich Wohler
4. Uses find as many things that you can that your element is used for: which one
will you list on your box and which ones will you make a drawing of for your
element?
Yttrium is used as the phosphor that produces the red color of television tubes. It
has also been used in solid-state lasers just recently. The device is particularly
useful in the cutting and drilling of metals.

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Name: Sabina Bacino

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5. Fun Facts about your element

Rocks brought back from the moon by the Apollo astronauts had an unexpectedly
high Yttrium content, but it is found in small quantities in the Earths crust.

6. Where your element is found (or mined)

It was found in Ytterbys quarry. It was first identified in Swedish village Ytterby,
near Stockholm.

7. Major Properties of this Element (conductive, shiny, soft, brittle etc. )

-silvery gray

8. New Words and their definitions (at least 3-5 words)

-monochromatic: containing or using only one color
-superconductivity: a phenomenon of zero electrical resistance and expulsion of
magnetic fields occurring in certain materials when cooled below a characteristic
critical temperature
-perovskite: a calcium titanium oxide mineral

9. Bibliography Full bibliography entries for text sources. You must use at least 1
book source (can be the paper I gave you) and 2 internet sources.
Stwertka,Albert.AGuidetotheElements.NewYork:OxfordUP,2012.Print.
"Perovskite."Wikipedia.WikimediaFoundation,12Sept.2014.Web.10Dec.2014.
"HomeofthePeriodicTable."PeriodicTableoftheElementsbyWebElements.N.p.,n.d.Web.10Dec.2014.
"Superconductivity."Wikipedia.WikimediaFoundation,12Oct.2014.Web.10Dec.2014.

"MonochromaticColor."Wikipedia.WikimediaFoundation,12Aug.2014.Web.10Dec.2014.
N.p.,n.d.Web.

Eighth Grade Science

Science
Date: 12/9/14

Name: Sabina Bacino

Period: 3