Prescription painkillers, also known as opioid pain relievers, include oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and others. Many people who abuse these painkillers become dependent. Some even move on to abusing illegal narcotics, such as heroin.
The first 92 (through uranium) occur naturally. The others are transuranics.. As of 2009, there are 118 ending with ununoctium. All together there are 117 elements on the periodic table, 94 of which occur naturally on earth. According to Wikipedia, there are 117 elements that have been isolated or synthesized, with a gap between element 116 and element 118.
Elements in the periodic table are arranged in the order of increasing atomic numbers (atomic number is the number of protons (usually equal to electrons) in an atom). This i â¦ s the arrangement of elements in the modern periodic table (or simply periodic table).