Elements and Compounds

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group (9)
  2. 5. A colorless toxic gas that occurs in the gases from volcanoes (14)
  3. 7. A colorless odorless gas used as a fuel (7)
  4. 8. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element (4)
  5. 9. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses (6)
  6. 10. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic (13)
  7. 13. Shiny yellow metal used in jewelry (4)
  8. 14. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal (6)
  9. 15. The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun (7)

Down

  1. 2. A white crystalline solid consisting mainly of ___ ___ (14)
  2. 3. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors (7)
  3. 4. A common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas (8)
  4. 6. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  5. 9. A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic (8)
  6. 11. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite (9)
  7. 12. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)