The update impacts the (Read more...) The Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS) is a Department of Defense (DoD) property management system. It is the Accountable Property System of Record (APSR) for over 32 DoD Agencies and Military Services. DPAS contains three modules, Property Accountability, Maintenance & Utilization and Warehouse Management. This program is administered by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD AT&L), a branch of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Seventeen elements are generally classified as nonmetals; most are gases (hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, chlorine, argon, krypton, xenon and radon); one is a liquid (bromine), and a few are solids (carbon, phosphorus, sulphur, selenium, and iodine).
But wait. That element is NOT in the family. When we told you about families, we said that they were groups of elements that react in similar ways. Hydrogen is a very special element of the periodic table and doesn't belong to any family. While hydrogen sits in Group I, it is NOT an alkali metal. Now that we've covered that exception, the members of the family include: lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs) and francium (Fr). As with all families, these elements share traits. They are very reactive.