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  2. History of the periodic table - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 November 2024. Development of the table of chemical elements The American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg —after whom the element seaborgium is named—standing in front of a periodic table, May 19, 1950 Part of a series on the Periodic table Periodic table forms 18-column 32-column Alternative and ...

  3. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Mendeleev's table did not include any of the noble gases, however, which had not yet been discovered. Gradually the periodic law and table became the framework for a great part of chemical theory. By the time Mendeleev died in 1907, he enjoyed international recognition and had received distinctions and awards from many countries.

  4. Periodic table - Wikipedia

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    Hence the periodic table is usually drawn to begin each row (often called a period) with the filling of a new s-orbital, which corresponds to the beginning of a new shell. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 30 ] Thus, with the exception of the first row, each period length appears twice: [ 47 ]

  5. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Mendeleev arranges the 63 elements known at that time (omitting terbium, as chemists were unsure of its existence, and helium, as it was not found on Earth) into the first modern periodic table and correctly predicts several others. 31 Gallium: 1875 P. E. L. de Boisbaudran: 1878 P. E. L. de Boisbaudran and E. Jungfleisch

  6. Timeline of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois publishes the telluric helix, an early, three-dimensional version of the periodic table of the elements. [65] 1864 John Newlands proposes the law of octaves, a precursor to the periodic law. [65] 1864 Lothar Meyer develops an early version of the periodic table, with 28 elements organized by valence. [66 ...

  7. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    [35]: 118 Moreover, the periodic table could predict how many atoms of other elements that an atom could bond with — e.g., germanium and carbon are in the same group on the table and their atoms both combine with two oxygen atoms each (GeO 2 and CO 2). Mendeleev found these patterns validated atomic theory because it showed that the elements ...

  8. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    41 of the 118 known elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects. 32 of these have names tied to the places on Earth, and the other nine are named after to Solar System objects: helium for the Sun; tellurium for the Earth; selenium for the Moon; mercury (indirectly), uranium, neptunium and plutonium after their respective ...

  9. Mendeleev's predicted elements - Wikipedia

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    The lightest of the Group 0 gases, the first in the periodic table, was assigned a theoretical atomic mass between 5.3 × 10 −11 u and 9.6 × 10 −7 u. The kinetic velocity of this gas was calculated by Mendeleev to be 2,500,000 meters per second.