Vertical Columns of the Periodic Table Are Known as ________

question 98

Multiple Choice

Vertical columns of the periodic table are known as ________.

• A)metals
• B)periods
• C)nonmetals
• D)groups
• E)metalloids

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Definitions:

Positivism

This term used to be used as a synonym for empiricism. It has also been used to refer to the philosophy of nineteenth-century thinker Auguste Comte, who held that human behavior followed scientific laws and that social policy should be constructed on the basis of these laws. In recent times, it has come to mean the outlook advanced by logical positivists who hold that only sentences capable of empirical verification are really meaningful.

Emotions

Complex psychological states that involve a mixture of feelings, thoughts, physiological changes, and behaviors.

Polytheistic

The belief in or worship of more than one god, characteristic of various religions and cultural traditions.

Henotheistic

Pertaining to the worship of a single god while not denying the existence or possible worship of other deities.