Editing Group (periodic table) (section)

===List of group names===
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! IUPAC<br>name
! Old<br>IUPAC<br>{{nobold|1=(Europe)}}
! Old [[Chemical Abstract Service|CAS]]<br>name<br>{{nobold|1=(U.S.)}}
! Name<br/>by element<br/>{{nobold|1=('group' or 'family')}}
! IUPAC<br/>recommended<br/>trivial name
! Other names
|-
| {{sort|01|[[#Group 1|Group 1]]}} || {{sort|1A|IA}} || {{sort|1A|IA}} || [[lithium]] group
| style="text-align:left;" | hydrogen and [[alkali metal]]s
| style="text-align:left;" | "lithium group" excludes hydrogen
|-
| {{sort|02|[[Group 2 element|Group 2]]}} || {{sort|2A|IIA}} || {{sort|2A|IIA}} || [[beryllium]] group
| style="text-align:left;" | [[alkaline earth metal]]s ||
|-
| {{sort|03|[[Group 3 element|Group 3]]}} || {{sort|3A|IIIA}} || {{sort|3B|IIIB}} || [[scandium]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|04|[[Group 4 element|Group 4]]}} || {{sort|4A|IVA}} || {{sort|4B|IVB}} || [[titanium]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|05|[[Group 5 element|Group 5]]}} || {{sort|5A|VA}} || {{sort|5A|VB}} || [[vanadium]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|06|[[Group 6 element|Group 6]]}} || {{sort|6A|VIA}} || {{sort|6B|VIB}} || [[chromium]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|07|[[Group 7 element|Group 7]]}} || {{sort|7A|VIIA}} || {{sort|7B|VIIB}} || [[manganese]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|08|[[Group 8 element|Group 8]]}} || {{sort|80|VIII}} || {{sort|8B1|VIIIB}} || [[iron]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|09|[[Group 9 element|Group 9]]}} || {{sort|81|VIII}} || {{sort|8B2|VIIIB}} || [[cobalt]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|10|[[Group 10 element|Group 10]]}} || {{sort|82|VIII}} || {{sort|8B3|VIIIB}} || [[nickel]] group || ||
|-
| {{sort|11|[[Group 11 element|Group 11]]}} || {{sort|1B|IB}} || {{sort|1B|IB}} || [[copper]] group ||
| style="text-align:left;" | Sometimes called [[coinage metals]],<br/>but the set is arbitrary{{ref|coinage|f}}
|-
| {{sort|12|[[Group 12 element|Group 12]]}} || {{sort|2B|IIB}} || {{sort|2B|IIB}} || [[zinc]] group ||
| style="text-align:left;" | volatile metals<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Simmons |first1=L. M. |date=1947 |title=A modification of the periodic table |url= |journal=Journal of Chemical Education |volume=24 |issue=12 |pages=588–591 |doi=10.1021/ed024p588|bibcode=1947JChEd..24..588S }}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|13|[[Group 13 element|Group 13]]}} || {{sort|3B|IIIB}} || {{sort|3B|IIIA}} || [[boron]] group
| style="text-align:left;" | triels{{ref|greek|b}}
| style="text-align:left;" | icosagens<ref>{{Greenwood&Earnshaw2nd|page=227}}</ref><br>earth metals
|-
| {{sort|14|[[Group 14 element|Group 14]]}} || {{sort|4B|IVB}} || {{sort|4A|IVA}} || [[carbon]] group
| style="text-align:left;" | tetrels{{ref|greek|c}}
| style="text-align:left;" | crystallogens<ref name=crystal/><br/>adamantogens<ref name=jensenlaw>{{cite web|url=http://www.che.uc.edu/jensen/W.%20B.%20Jensen/Reprints/081.%20Periodic%20Table.pdf|last1=Jensen|first1=William B.|authorlink=William B. Jensen|title=The Periodic Law and Table|date=2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110113324/http://www.che.uc.edu/jensen/W.%20B.%20Jensen/Reprints/081.%20Periodic%20Table.pdf |access-date=10 December 2022|archive-date=2020-11-10 }}</ref><br/>merylides<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fernelius |first1=W. C. |last2=Loening |first2=Kurt |last3=Adams |first3=Roy M. |date=1971 |title=Names of groups and elements |url= |journal=Journal of Chemical Education |volume=48 |issue=11 |pages=730–731 |doi=10.1021/ed048p730 |bibcode=1971JChEd..48..730F |access-date=}}</ref>
|-
| {{sort|15|[[Group 15 element|Group 15]]}} || {{sort|5B|VB}} || {{sort|5A|VA}} || [[nitrogen]] group
| style="text-align:left;" | [[pnictogen]]s<br/>pentels{{ref|greek|n}}
|
|-
| {{sort|16|[[Group 16 element|Group 16]]}} || {{sort|6B|VIB}}|| {{sort|6A|VIA}} || [[oxygen]] group
| style="text-align:left;" | [[chalcogen]]s ||
|-
| {{sort|17|[[Group 17 element|Group 17]]}} || {{sort|7B|VIIB}} || {{sort|7A|VIIA}} || [[fluorine]] group
| style="text-align:left;" | [[halogen]]s ||
|-
| {{sort|18|[[Group 18 element|Group 18]]}} || {{sort|00|0}} || {{sort|8A|VIIIA}}
| {{nowrap|[[helium]]}} group<br/>or {{nowrap|[[neon]] group}}
| style="text-align:left;" | [[noble gas]]es
| style="text-align:left;" | aerogens<ref name=pentel/>
|}

:{{note|coinage|f}} ''Coinage metals'': authors differ on whether roentgenium (Rg) is considered a coinage metal. It is in group 11, like the other coinage metals, and is expected to be chemically similar to gold.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Conradie |first1=Jeanet |last2=Ghosh |first2=Abhik |date=2019 |title=Theoretical Search for the Highest Valence States of the Coinage Metals: Roentgenium Heptafluoride May Exist |journal=Inorganic Chemistry |volume=58 |issue=13 |pages=8735–8738 |doi=10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01139|pmid=31203606 |s2cid=189944098 }}</ref> On the other hand, being extremely radioactive and short-lived, it cannot actually be used for coinage as the name suggests, and on that basis it is sometimes excluded.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Grochala |first1=Wojciech |last2=Mazej |first2=Zoran |date=2015 |title=Chemistry of silver(II): a cornucopia of peculiarities |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A |volume=373 |issue=2037 |doi=10.1098/rsta.2014.0179 |pmid=25666068 |s2cid=45589426 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015RSPTA.37340179G }}</ref>

:{{note|greek|b}} ''triels'' (group 13), from Greek ''tri'': three, III<ref name=crystal>{{cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Ning |last2=Lu |first2=Na |first3=Yan |last3=Su |first4=Pu |last4=Wang |first5=Xie |last5=Quan |date=2019 |title=Fabrication of g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>/Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub> composite and its visible-light photocatalytic capability for ciprofloxacin degradation |journal=Separation and Purification Technology |volume=211 |pages=782–789 |doi=10.1016/j.seppur.2018.10.027 |s2cid=104746665 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317583451 |access-date=17 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=pentel/>
:{{note|greek|c}} ''tetrels'' (group 14), from Greek ''tetra'': four, IV<ref name=crystal/><ref name=pentel/>
:{{note|greek|n}} ''pentel'' (group 15), from Greek ''penta'': five, V<ref name=pentel>{{cite book |last=Rich |first=Ronald |date=2007 |title=Inorganic Reactions in Water |publisher=Springer |pages=307, 327, 363, 475 |isbn=9783540739616 |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-73962-3}}</ref>