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Actinide Actinium Alkali metal
Alkaline earth metal Aluminium Americium
Antimony Argon Arsenic
Astatine Barium Berkelium
Beryllium Bismuth Bohrium
Boron Bromine Cadmium
Caesium Calcium Californium
Carbon Cerium Chlorine
Chromium Cobalt Copernicium
Copper Curium Darmstadtium
Dubnium Dysprosium Einsteinium
Erbium Europium Fermium
Flerovium Fluorine Francium
Gadolinium Gallium Germanium
Gold Hafnium Halogen
Hassium Helium Holmium
Hydrogen Indium Iodine
Iridium Iron Krypton
Lanthanide Lanthanum Lawrencium
Lead List of elements by name Lithium
Livermorium Lutetium Magnesium
Manganese Meitnerium Mendelevium
Mercury (element) Molybdenum Neodymium
Neon Neptunium Nickel
Niobium Nitrogen Nobelium
Noble gas Osmium Oxygen
Palladium Periodic table Periodic table (large version)
Phosphorus Platinum Plutonium
Polonium Potassium Praseodymium
Promethium Protactinium Radium
Radon Rhenium Rhodium
Roentgenium Rubidium Ruthenium
Rutherfordium Samarium Scandium
Seaborgium Selenium Silicon
Silver Sodium Strontium
Sulfur Tantalum Technetium
Tellurium Template:Periodic table Terbium
Thallium Thorium Thulium
Tin Titanium Transition metal
Tungsten Ununoctium Ununpentium
Ununtrium Uranium Vanadium
Xenon Ytterbium Yttrium
Zinc Zirconium
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