What is the meaning of color in the periodic table?

2 Answers

John McCann answered

Mine is all one color, but I assume color delineates the different major classes of elements.

Metals

Nonmetals

transition metals

metalloids

Nobel gasses

Lathanides

actinides

Alexis Scuderi answered

It helps sort the elements into groups.

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