Quiz: Can you find the elements on the periodic table?

Can you believe the periodic table has been around for over 150 years? Take this quiz to see if you can find the elements.

What is the periodic table?

The periodic table is a way of organising the elements which is used by scientists to group elements with similar properties. It has a unique arrangement of rows and columns. 

A Russian scientist named Dmitri Mendeleev produced one of the first periodic tables over 150 years ago. The modern periodic table is a based closely on the ideas he used.

You can read more about the periodic table on BBC Bitesize.

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