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Therald Moeller

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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1969–83. Author of Inorganic Chemistry: A Modern Introduction and many others.

Primary Contributions (1)

A color-coded periodic table of the elements displays each element's symbol and atomic number, with categories such as alkali metals, noble gases, halogens, transition metals, and actinoid elements distinguished by different background colors.

carbon group element

Carbon group element, any of the six chemical elements that make up Group 14 (IVa) of the periodic table—namely, carbon (C), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), tin (Sn), lead (Pb), and flerovium (Fl). Except for germanium and the artificially produced flerovium, all of these elements are familiar in…