group 16
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Key facts
- Periodic table group.title
- Chalcogens
- Periodic table group.group number
- 16
- Periodic table group.trivial name
- chalcogens
- Periodic table group.by element
- oxygen group
- Periodic table group.CAS
- VIA
- Periodic table group.old IUPAC
- VIB
- Periodic table group.mark
- O,S,Se,Te,Po,Lv
- Periodic table group.left
- pnictogens
- Periodic table group.right
- halogens
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25 sectionsContents
- Properties
- Atomic and physical
- Isotopes
- Allotropes
- Chemical
- Compounds
- Organic
- With metals
- With pnictogens
- Other
- History
- Early discoveries
- Periodic table placing
- Modern discoveries
- Names and etymology
- Occurrence
- Chalcophile elements
- Production
- Applications
- Biological role
- Toxicity
- Amphid salts
- See also
- References
- External links
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The chalcogens (, ) are the chemical elements in group 16 of the periodic table. This group is also known as the oxygen family. Group 16 consists of the elements oxygen (O), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), tellurium (Te), and the radioactive elements polonium (Po) and livermorium (Lv). Often, oxygen is treated separately from the other chalcogens, sometimes even excluded from the scope of the term "chalcogen" altogether, due to its very different chemical behavior from sulfur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium. The word "chalcogen" means "ore-forming"; chalcogens got their name because protoscientists and early scientists could discern that these essences (which science would later reveal to be chemical elements) were involved in ore formation.