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The periodic table's ore-makers — oxygen's family, happiest stealing electrons from metals.
means Any element in the oxygen family (group 16 of the periodic table) — oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium — elements that readily bond with metals to form ores.
from From Greek khalkos, 'copper' or 'ore,' plus -gen, 'producer of' (the same -gen in 'oxygen' and 'hydrogen'). The name was coined because so many metal ores are compounds of these elements with oxygen or sulfur — chalcogens are, quite literally, the 'ore-formers.'
- group number
- Group 16, right next to the pnictogens
- name origin
- Greek for ore-former, chalkos plus genes
- lineup
- oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, polonium
- everyday fame
- oxygen you breathe, sulfur that stinks eggs