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Mendeleev

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Mendeleev and the Modern Periodic Table

Dmitri Mendeleev arranged elements into what we now know as the modern periodic table.

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Mendeleev

  • Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian scientist.
  • He was born in 1834 and died in 1907.
  • As a very young man, it was clear he had the potential to go on to greatness.
  • At the age of 16, his mother took him to Moscow to enrol in university. They wouldn't accept him so he later enrolled at the university in St. Petersberg.
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The Periodic Table

  • In 1869, Mendeleev had knowledge of the 60 known elements.
  • He placed them in order of their atomic mass and their properties in what we now know as the periodic table.
  • He even left gaps and predicted the properties of the missing elements!

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