The Group 7 element reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004
(provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Group 7 element

For people who check facts
Group 7
Period
4 25
Mn
5 43
Tc
6 75
Re
7 107
Bh

A Group 7 element is an element in periodic table group 7 (IUPAC style) in the periodic table, which consists of:

All of these elements are classed in Group 7 because their valence shell holds four electrons. Technetium has no stable isotopes. Technetium, and promethium (61), are the only two such elements before polonium, after which no known element has a stable isotope.

Key to color coding in table slice on right: Transition metals
Color coding for these atomic numbers: At room temperature, all are solid; red indicates item is synthetic and does not occur naturally.