Ep 37 Memorizing The First 20 Elements of the Periodic Table Part 1 - Google Doc

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In this video episode of the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast, I show you how to make your own first 20 elements Google doc so that you can readily memorize the rest of the table or have a head start on chemistry class.

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While chemistry is a foundation course usually given before pharmacology, we don't always connect the elements to the medications. 

In the second part, I will talk about medical uses for the first 20 elements so that you connect the chemistry of the Periodic Table of Elements to what you might be doing in your future career.  

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Hey, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I’m going to take a little bit of a detour today from our mnemonics in the advanced mnemonics from pharmacology and gastrointestinal system. What we’re going to do is we’re going to go over the periodic table and go over the first 20 elements and how to make a Google doc that you can use and kind of keep. But what I want to do is show you how I make them and how you can create it from memory. So the first thing we’ll do is we’ll create a table here.

We’re going to go across one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and then we’re going to go down one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Okay so nine across and eight down. Okay all right uh we’re going to have to make the font seven uh that’s the only way that everything will fit so that we don’t have to have any letters and words kind of going around but that makes it a little bit easier. Let’s see if we can’t make this a little bit bigger to see on the screen so there we go.

All right so first thing we’re going to do we’re going to kind of put some things here on the side and I think the easiest thing to do is actually not fill these in yet so I can kind of explain them. What we’re going to do is we’re going to put four periods here so we’re going to put period 1 period 2 period 3 and period 4.

So the periodic table of elements is because the periods have some similarities though as we’ll learn groups which are up and down or vertical are actually tend to be more related and so when we look at group numbers we would just go put something like group number in there and I would go one two three four five six seven and eight and then we’re going to make a little bit of a change instead of 3 it’s 13 instead of 4 it’s 14.

Instead of 5 it’s 15, 6 is 16, 7 is 17, 8 is 18. The reason for this is that since we’re doing the first 20 elements and maybe I’ll just even make it more explicit that we’re doing the first 20 elements from memory. The kind of table leaf that you know during Thanksgiving you can put a little extra piece of a table into a dining room table to make it a little bit longer. You’re going to see those transition elements we’re not going to mess with those right now so that’s why the group numbers are 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18.

And the way that I like to do it is to start with the abbrev start with the numbers okay and then we’ll go to the abbreviation which is a lot easier to remember letters than it is to remember names then we’ll talk about how some of the endings of the names are the same because of the Latin and then we’ll go into atomic math so how much each of them weighs and I’ll show you the first 20 elements trick which is something that a lot of people like to use okay so let’s start with just numbering everything and I think to make things

Easier or more familiar what we’ll do is we’ll use this center align okay so start there and let’s start with one and this is what’s a little bit goofy is that we’re going to put our 2 all the way here under group 18. So group 1 is a 1 group 18 is a two okay then we go 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 and 20.

Okay so it’s a little bit goofy but I think it’s a little bit easier if you take a look at the numbers first before you ever mess with any abbreviations or any names of any elements. And so what we’ll do is to make it even more clear we’ll bold the group numbers and the periods so that it’s a lot easier for you to see okay so now let’s do the abbreviations so it’s H then He and we have Li Be and what I’ll do is I’ll show you a way to remember a bunch of these and what usually happens is you remember

Them but not necessarily the order and so sometimes it’s a little bit tougher to remember that order. And what we’ll do is we’ll see how some words kind of pop up as you’re looking at the periodic table. And Mg is 12 Al is13 Si is14 P for phosphorus is15 S for sulfur is16 Cl for chlorine is17 Ar for argon oops and then we come down to this last one K for potassium is19 Ca for calcium okay so what I’ll do is I’m going to put just a couple of notes here that we can use and we’ll put HH to

Remind ourselves that the first two elements of the periodic table start with an H hydrogen and helium. And then it is liberating to know all of the first 20 elements so Li for lithium Be for beryllium. You have to know your ABCs and in many ways the periodic table is like your ABCs and if you look at this box with aluminum boron carbon and silicon the first letters are ABCs. And what you usually see is some mnemonic that’s going to teach you the first 20 and you have to learn it in order but you don’t have to you can just say okay.

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"Well, here’s a little box and I see ABC’s. Okay, you also see the letters N-O for make the word no after boron and carbon for nitrogen and oxygen. Also see in I know this is not really grammatical but He Ne Ar okay. So looking at the elements in group 18 which we’ll learn later, the noble gases, but He Ne Ar and then I also think about I’m a runner, I like doing marathons. So someone who runs, you want to drink a lot of water before the race and make sure you’re peeing clear so peas clear C-L-A-R okay.

So just some ways to remember some of the elements abbreviations and where they are some other things that I just kind of notice is that N and M are right next to each other in the alphabet it’s just backward where the M is second and the N is first and then the K from K Liam which we’ll learn about in a second and K sound from calcium are right next to each other here too. So really when you’re learning the first 20 it’s not just about okay hydrogen and helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen

In a linear fashion but it’s also good to kind of keep it sticky in your head that all of these are where they belong okay okay so let’s move on to the names okay so what I want you to look at are some of the endings and you’re going to notice that when you see helium the next one lithium is very similar as is beryllium and then boron and carbon but we don’t say that we say carbon are similar as well nitrogen the oxygen and then the original hydrogen are all very similar oops add a little extra typing there with oxygen okay.

Fluorine is a halogen which we’ll learn about in a minute but also is going to match up with chlorine down below it and then neon we see that O-N ending again and what you’re going to figure out is there are just not a ton of different endings what we’re going to do with sodium is we’re going to put just under it natrium which is where the N A comes from that’s why it’s not so magnesium aluminum and in some countries you’ll still hear aluminium but we use aluminum in the states silicon.

And this is where it gets a little bit goofy where if you had pronounced it silicone it actually makes a different word so silicone includes silicon and some other things and some of the medical uses that you have for it phosphorus sulfur and then chlorine argon 18. We’ll just move this up a little bit and then for this potassium we’ll do potassium and callium and it as you get into your study especially if you become a healthcare professional when somebody is low on sodium we don’t say hyposodium emic we say.

Hydro hyponatremic if they have too much sodium we say hypernatremic and then with the potassium it’s the same thing we say hypokalemic too much too little potassium or hyperkalemic too much potassium so it’s important to know where that N A and K comes from because you’re going to be using it if you get into medical terminology okay so Ca for calcium and that’s all the goofiness there next thing you’re going to kind of do in the progression is you’re going to have to learn how much each of these weigh and we talk.

About mass rather than weight and you’re going to hear atomic masses so there’s a neat little trick to knowing it and this is the first 20 elements trick that any odd number which is going to be you know the numbers that we see right now are the atomic numbers or the number of protons in each of these elements so hydrogen has one proton which is a positively charged item in the middle or the nucleus of the atom so the odd is going to be double plus one okay and then the even is going to just be double and I’ll show you what this.

How this works out so hydrogen we see double plus one would be one times two is two plus one makes three okay two is even so we just double to make four lithium is odd so double plus one is seven so three times two is six plus one is seven beryllium is four so we make it eight boron is five so we make it eleven okay double plus one carbon twelve nitrogen 14 plus 115 oxygen double 16 fluorine 9 double plus 1 19 neon we’ll just go double 20.

Sodium we’re going to actually put this between the sodium and the natrium just so it’s really nice and even nice and clean. And so we’re going to see double plus one because it’s odd 23 magnesium we’re going to have double 24 aluminum double plus 127 silicon double 28 phosphorous 15 it’s going to be double plus 1 31 sulfur it’s going to be double 32 chlorine double plus 1 is going to be 34 plus 135 argon doubles 36 and then potassium we’ll again put it like right between there so we see double plus 1 is going to be 39 so 38 plus 1 and then calcium is going to be double 40. Now not all of those are exactly right there are four that need to be changed because they are exceptions and so the exceptions are and I just put H Ben Error okay so because it’s H B E N and A R those are the four that we’re going to make exceptions and those exceptions are going to be 1 9 14 and 40.

And you see the 1 9 1 4 4 0 and hopefully you can remember that so we recognize that hydrogen we change from a 3 to a 1 that’s actually its correct atomic mass beryllium we change from an 8 to a 9 that’s its correct atomic mass nitrogen goes from 15 to 14 and argon from 36 to 40. Okay so those are the exceptions then what you’re going to be asked to do is you’re going to ask to name four of the groups so group 1 group 2 group 17 and group 18.

The other groups do have names but we don’t really use them they’re a little bit goofy but if you put the word names in all caps here the name of the first group is AM and all the alkali metals the second group is going to be AEM alkali earth metals I’m going to talk a little bit about the metalloid stairs which is not a group as much as it is recognizing where we separate metals and nonmetals MS then we have the halogens and then the noble gases okay so we’ll put these up but I just put this here because if you look at names the word

Names AM AEM and MS are all part of that okay so let’s start with this first group name and what we can do is we can just kind of put this up here so group name and we’ll put alkali metals and then alkaline earth metals and we’re kind of losing everything so we may have to reduce to maybe 150 percent here so that we can see everything I’m going to put the metalloid stairs here because they’re going to start here but generally when you see a periodic table that’s colored in with some differences in the different colors

You’re going to see stairs with boron and silicon and then some of the other elements that are separating metals on the left from non-metals on the right then we go to halogens group 17 over here and then the noble gases are group 18. Okay all right then you’re going to talk about bonding there’s going to be Ionic and covalent bonding which you’ll talk about so we’ll start with Ionic charge and it’s going to be where are the plus is okay so the way to do this is to just go plus oops.

Plus one plus two plus three X then plus minus three minus two minus one X and so I’ll show you where that all works out and again our goal is more to just have this Google doc where we can always kind of go back to it so we’re looking at Ionic charge we see plus one plus two plus three X don’t really mess with that one minus three minus two minus one X and we see that you know hydrogen lithium sodium and potassium will have the plus one charge magnesium and calcium plus two aluminum plus three nitrogen phosphorus minus three

Oxygen sulfur minus two chlorine fluorine minus one. And just an easy way to remember those, maybe we’ll bold these sections, make it just a little bit stand out a little bit more hmm it made it go over let me get rid of that Ionic, put charge there okay next thing you’ll be asked to do is know the valence number. So valence numbers number of electrons in the outer shell, what we can do with that though is we can make it so I want to center this, I’m going to center align.

Okay, look at the ones place in the group number, valence of group one is one, valence of group two is two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So you can write your note here that valence electrons are in the ones place. Alright. So now let’s move on, built our periodic table what some people like to do is they like color it in with some different colors. And what I want do kind of make colors at least not too dramatic so that it’s still useful to you okay so let’s just start coloring this in and the way to do that on docs is to take the table options and properties and then you click down here on color and what we do is we change the cell background color so with hydrogen what I’m going to do is one of the big things is recognizing that hydrogen is a little bit goofy in that it’s going to be over here okay and it matches up to carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine as well as phosphorus sulfur and chlorine okay and I made them two different yellows I didn’t mean to do that okay there we go alright.

And what we can do is we can kind of color this box up here above the carbon and we’ll just color that one in the same color and yeah that one’s a little bit different I think we’ll use this one okay there okay and we’ll recognize this as the reactive non-metals okay we’re going to start from left to right and so what we can do is we can do the alkali metals here so we’ll just color this in and maybe we’ll use kind of this kind of very light red so we can still read our what we’ve got there.

And let’s see if even a little bit lighter just to make it a little bit easier to read those okay there we go so those are the alkali metals and then the alkaline iron earth metals maybe we can do a little bit of a purple or lavender that’s gonna kind of match up with that there we go okay then we’ve got our metallite stairs and we can think of stairs being maybe we’ll put a kind of a light gray for these stairs okay alright and use that same one okay so boron and silicon these are metalloids or

Semi-metals they separate the metals from the nonmetals aluminum there’s something called a post-transition metal and maybe we’ll just kind of make it green to just make it stand out a little bit and we can kind of maybe put that one up here so just make the name post transition metal will be green okay and maybe what I can do is I can kind of move these around a little bit to make it so that they match up a little bit better with where they lie so here we go what I might do is take the metalloid reactive non-metals and I’ll take this

Label and I’ll move it over here where oxygen is and there we go okay and we’ll take this metalloid stairs and put it over silicon so that it’s actually over the section that it should be over and post transition metal then we can move over aluminum so it can be in the right place alright so we can now change the colors to make it all work out so it matches up and this guy should be clear alright okay so some people learn better with colors and sometimes that’s a little bit easier and then maybe the noble gases we’ll do

Orange something just a little bit distinct from that yellow over there okay there we go alright. And I won’t mess with the halogens although fluorine and chlorine are halogens I don’t want to make it reactive nonmetals and the halogens because it gets a little bit goofy here but what I want to do is just kind of show you in our next section how these are used in medicine. And many of these 20 are used either as elements or something else in medicine but we’re already at 20 minutes so I’m going to do that in part 2.

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