Why are elements grouped together in the same family?

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They are grouped together into families based on their chemical properties, hope this helped you : )

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Hi!

Elements are classified into families because the three main categories of elements (metals, nonmetals, and semimetals) are very broad.

Thomas Cook answered Jul 24, 2018

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