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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.
In general, within one row (period) the elements are metals on the left, and non-metals on the right. The rows of the table are called periods; the columns are called groups. Six groups (columns) have names as well as numbers: for example, group 17 elements are the halogens; and group 18, the noble gases. The periodic table can be used to derive relationships between the properties of the elements, and predict the properties of new elements yet to be discovered or synthesized.