Where It's Used: Hydrogen was used as a main fuel for the Space Shuttle

program by NASA, as well as currently being used heavily by the petroleum and
manufacturing industries.

Where It's Used: Helium gas is commonly known to be lighter than air, which
leads to its use in weather and party balloons.

Where It's Used: Lithium is known most to be used in batteries.

Where It's Used: This element is most used as an alloying agent for copper.

Where It's Used: Boron is used in pyrotechnics. When burned, it gives off a
green color in the flame. More common uses are in boric acid and borax. You can
find boron in antiseptics, washing chemicals, ceramic glazes, and eye drops.

Where It's Used: These hydrocarbons are mostly used as fuels and as a
feedstock to produce polymers, fibres, paints, solvents, and plastics.
Where It's Used: The element is significant to the chemical industry as it is a
key nutrient in fertilizers and a key component in nitric acid, nylon, and explosive
materials.

Where It's Used Pure oxygen is used to treat breathing problems and make
spacecraft liveable.

Where It's Used: Fluorine is a common additive to drinking water and is used
as a cleaning agent in toothpaste.

Where It's Used: By far the most prominent use of the element today is used
in advertising signs.

Where It's Used: Sodium is used in streetlights to produce yellow light as well
as being a component in many compounds like table salt, soda ash, borax, and
baking soda.
Where It's Used: Magnesium finds many of its uses in medicine as Epsom salts,
milk of magnesia, chloride, and citrate. Magnesium is also essential to both
animal and plant life

Where It's Used: Aluminum is a soft and malleable metal that has uses in cans
and fouls, utensils, airplane and automotive parts, and other structural
applications.

Where It's Used: Silicon is used extensively in the semiconductor industry in

solid-state electronics.

Where It's Used: The largest use of phosphorus compounds is for fertilizers.
Phosphorus is also important in the production of steel.

Where It's Used: . It can also be used to treat skin diseases, however, its prime
use is in compound separation.

Where It's Used: Chlorine is used in water treatment and as an antiseptic.

Where It's Used: Argon is used in incandescent and fluorescent bulbs as a
protective layer around the filament to keep oxygen from corroding it
Where It's Used: Potassium is mainly used in compounds. It is combined with
chlorine to produce potassium chloride which is used in fertilizers,
pharmaceuticals, and saline drips.

Where It's Used: Calcium is used to prepare thorium and uranium as a

reducing agent. It is also used as an alloying agent in aluminum, copper, lead,
and magnesium.

Where It's Used: Used heavily in mercury vapor lamps, Scandium is a key
element in stadium lights. Its radioactive isotope is also used as a tracing agent.

Where It's Used:. This strong metal is used in the aerospace industry as well as
engines partly because of its ability to maintain its strength in thermal extremes.

Where It's Used: This element is used in jet engines and aircraft components

Where It's Used: Chromium is used in stainless steel as well as in the chrome
plating process. Various chromium compounds are known for their vivid colors.
Where It's Used It is used in glass to remove the green color present in iron
compounds. It is too brittle to be used on its own and is mainly used as an alloy.

Where It's Used: Iron's prime use is in making steel. When steel is combined
with chromium, it produces stainless steel which is resistant to corrosion.

Where It's Used: Cobalt is used mostly as a cancer treatment and in

radiotherapy.

Where It's Used: Nickel is used in stainless steel and other anti-corrosion metal
alloys. Other prominent uses include piping and tubing production as well as in
the desalination process.

Where It's Used: Copper is one of the best conductors of electricity, which
leads to its use in electronics and motors.

Where It's Used: Zinc is used as an alloying agent in brass, nickel, silver, and
aluminum. Paints, rubbers, cosmetics, batteries, textiles, and inks also have a
significant need for the element.
Where It's Used: Since gallium has a low melting point, it is often used in
medical thermometers as a substitute for mercury.

Where It's Used: Germanium finds its uses in the semiconductor industry.

Where It's Used: This element is used as a doping agent in transistors,

primarily with Gallium. Many arsenic compounds are used as insecticides and
poisons.

Where It's Used: Primary uses for selenium are in the glass industry. Its
properties allow it to decolorize class and make red glass as well.

Where It's Used: Bromine is used as a flame-retarder in plastics and

electronics. It can also be used to purify and disinfect water, leading to its uses in
swimming pools and hot tubs.

Where It's Used: About .0001percent of Earth's atmosphere is krypton, which

makes obtaining it relatively difficult. The element is used for flashes in high-
speed photography as well as a conductive gas in fluorescent lights. Krypton
fluoride is used in some lasers.

Where It's Used: Rubidium is used in vacuum tubes to remove trace gases. It
also is heavily used in photocells and specialized glasses.

Where It's Used: Strontium is used in pyrotechnics to produce brilliant reds. It

can also be used in ferrite magnet production and zinc refining.

Where It's Used: An oxide of yttrium is used to make red phosphorus television
tubes. Along with this, it is used to increase the strength in aluminum and
magnesium alloys.

Where It's Used: Zirconium is used as an anti-corrosion compound in pumps

and valves. It does not absorb neutrons, so it is also widely used in nuclear
reactors.

Where It's Used: Niobium is used in stainless steel alloys. Alloys produced with
Niobium are very strong and are often used in pipelines and jet engines.
Where It's Used: It can be used to refine petroleum, but its main use is as an
alloying agent to refine steel. Molybdenum disulfide is used as a lubricant
additive.

Where It's Used: Technetium is a synthesized element that can be used as a

radioactive tracer.

Where It's Used: Ruthenium is used as a catalyst to harden metals. It is also

used in electrical contacts and to color glass.

Where It's Used: Rhodium is used to manufacture electrical contacts.

Where It's Used: Palladium is an important element of the catalytic conversion

process. It is also used in jewelry and dental fillings.

Where It's Used: Silver is used in jewelry and tableware. It is the best reflector
of visible light, although it does tarnish. It is used in soldering and brazing
compounds as well as batteries.
Where It's Used: Cadmium is poisonous, so it has few practical uses. It can be
used to prevent corrosion or to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. One of its
more commercial uses is in rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries.
Where It's Used: Indium is primarily used as a doping agent for germanium in
the transistor manufacturing process. It is also used to make highly reflective
mirrors and low-melting-point alloys.

Where It's Used: Tin has the ability to be polished to a high degree and is not
corrodible. It is mainly used to coat other metals or as an alloy in solder and
pewter. Niobium-tin magnets are known for their superconducting abilities.