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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 the periodic table of the elements, each numbered column is a group. In chemistry, a group (also known as a family) is a column of elements in the periodic table of the chemical elements.There are 18 numbered groups in the periodic table, but the f-block columns (between groups 2 and 3) are not numbered.n the old IUPAC system the letters A and B were designated to the left (A) and right (B) part of the table, while in the CAS system the letters A and B are designated to main group elements (A) and transition elements (B).