Atomic Box Project (30 pts) due 12-10-14 Name: Johnny Duncan

Per. 1
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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Date: _________________

Period: ____

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: Thallium
Atomic Number: 81
Atomic Mass: 204.38
Melting Point (in Celcius!) 303.8C
Boiling Point (in Celcius!) 1,473C
Phase: Solid
Metal, semimetal, non metal? METAL
Usually Radioactive? No
Group: Boron group
3. Discovered Who discovered this element, when, where and how it was
discovered.
William Crookes first discovered it in 1861. He discovered it in Britain. He identified
it by the brilliant green spectral line.

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?
Thallium sulfite used to be a rat poison.
Thallium sulfide is used in photocells because of its electrical conductivity.
Thallium oxide is used to make glass.
Thallium is used in gamma rays.
Detecting infrared radiation

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5. Fun Facts about your element

Thallium is banned in the US.
President Richard Nixon using his executive order to ban it.
Thallium is used in modern medicine.
A knife can cut thallium.
Thallium can kill humans.
Thallium is the most toxic element.
Thallium comes from the Greek word thallos.
Thallium has 11 isotopes
6. Where your element is found (or mined)
Thallium is found in rare minerals.
Thallium is found in crooksite, lorandite, and hutchinsonite.
Pure thallium is not found in nature.
7. Major Properties of this Element (conductive, shiny, soft, brittle etc. )
Soft and heavy.

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

Nodule: small rounded lump of matter.
Carcinogenic: having the potential to cure cancer.
Ringworm: a contagious itching disease.

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. A Guide to the Elements. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. Print.
"Thallium." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Jan. 2014. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium>.
"Thallium Element Facts." Chemicool. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.
<http://www.chemicool.com/elements/thallium.html>.
"Aluminum and the Elements of Group 13." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.
<http://tinyurl.com/ll6u64e>.
"Home of the Periodic Table." Periodic Table of the Elements by WebElements. N.p., n.d. Web. 07
Dec. 2014. <http://www.webelements.com/>.
"Periodic Table." - Chart of All Chemical Elements. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2014.
<http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart.htm>.
"Chemical Elements.com - An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements."Chemical Elements.com

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- An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.
<http://www.chemicalelements.com/>.
"The Elements Revealed: An Interactive Periodic Table." Scientific American Global RSS. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2014. <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemistry-the-elementsrevealed-interactive-periodic-table/>.