Chalcogens are elements of:

Chalcogen are elements of the group

Chalcogen group elements are .

Consider the following statements according to modern periodic table. (i) Modern periodic table contains 18 vertical columns and 7 horizontal rows. The elements after uranium are called transuranium elements (iii) The 17 th group elements are called chalcogens (iv) The elements of Groups 13 to 18 are called p- block elements. which of the following statement (s) given above is /are correct.

Why are elements of 16 group called Chalcogen?

What are chalcogens? Why are they so called?

Chalcogens belongs to p-block. Give reason.