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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=chemistry">chemistry</a>, a <b>group</b> (also known as a <b>family</b>) is a column of elements in the <a href="page.php?w=Periodic_table">periodic table of the chemical elements</a>. There are 18 numbered groups in the periodic table; the 14 <a href="page.php?w=Block_%28periodic_table%29">f-block</a> columns, between groups 2 and 3, are not numbered. The elements in a group have similar physical or chemical characteristics of the outermost <a href="page.php?w=electron_shell">electron shell</a>s of their atoms (i.e., the</p><p>
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