Discovery and uses sheet

118 elements · ChemTable · sample of the first 8 rows

Discovery and uses sheet. Who found each element, when and where, next to what it is actually used for. Sectioned by category, so the alkali metals, the halogens and the noble gases each read as one run. The use list is printed in full for every element rather than trimmed to a headline.
Z	Symbol	Name	Discovered year	Discoverers	Where	What it is used for
Alkali metals
3	Li	Lithium	1817	Johan August Arfwedson	Sweden	Batteries; Mood stabilizers; Ceramics; Lubricants
11	Na	Sodium	1807	Humphry Davy	England	Table salt; Street lamps; Heat transfer; Soap making
19	K	Potassium	1807	Humphry Davy	England	Fertilizers; Soap making; Gunpowder; Heart function
37	Rb	Rubidium	1861	Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff	Germany	Atomic clocks; Electronics; Fireworks; Photocells
55	Cs	Cesium	1860	Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff	Germany	Atomic clocks; Drilling fluids; Photoelectric cells; Cancer treatment
87	Fr	Francium	1939	Marguerite Perey	France	Scientific research only
Alkaline earth metals
4	Be	Beryllium	1798	Louis Nicolas Vauquelin	France	Aerospace alloys; X-ray windows; Nuclear reactors; Gyroscopes
12	Mg	Magnesium	1755	Joseph Black	Scotland	Alloys; Fireworks; Medicine; Photography

Assembled from the ChemTable element reference - the same figures published free on every element page, in the interactive table and in the list view. Nothing on this sheet is computed, rounded up or estimated beyond what those pages already show. Temperatures in kelvin, mass in unified atomic mass units (u), density in g/cm³. Discovery attributions and use lists are reproduced verbatim from each element's own page; none is summarised, reordered or shortened.

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