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.
What is an element? How many elements are there? An element is a substance that is made entirely from one type of atom. For example, the element hydrogen is made from atoms containing a single proton and a single electron. If you change the number of protons an atom has, you change the type of element it is.