Group
See About the Periodic Table for information on how Group can be used to characterize an element.
- Group 1: alkali metals, or lithium family
- Group 2: alkaline earth metals, or beryllium family
- Group 3: the scandium family
- Group 4: the titanium family
- Group 5: the vanadium family
- Group 6: the chromium family
- Group 7: the manganese family
- Group 8: the iron family
- Group 9: the cobalt family
- Group 10: the nickel family
- Group 11: the copper family
- Group 12: the zinc family
- Group 13: the boron family
- Group 14: the carbon family
- Group 15: the pnictogens, or nitrogen family
- Group 16: the chalcogens, or oxygen family
- Group 17: the halogens, or fluorine family
- Group 18: the helium/neon family. These included the nobel gases for the first six periods