If you were trying to heat soup would you want to use a good thermal conductor or good thermal insulator? explain your answer

a good thermal conductor

Explanation:

you are trying to heat it up so you want the heat to pass through the pot (or whatever you are heating it up in) to get to the soup

if you were trying to keep your soup warm, like if you were trying to bring it to lunch, you would want a good thermal insulator so the heat stays in the soup and does not pass through the container

each chemical family is represented as a group or column on the periodic table. based on chemical properties, there are 6 types of chemical families. group 1 represents alkali metals, group 2 represents alkaline earth metals, groups 3 to 12 represent transition metals, groups 13 to 16 represent non-metals and other metals, group 17 represents halogens and group 18 represents noble gases.