How Did Mendeleev Come Up With the Periodic Table?
Mendeleev was organizing data for a textbook and noticed elements grouped by properties. Voilà, the periodic table was born.
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Mendeleev noticed patterns in the properties of elements when he arranged them by increasing atomic weight and left gaps for undiscovered elements. He was like a scientific Sherlock Holmes!
He saw similarities.
I once read Mendeleev even predicted properties of elements not yet discovered. Genius move right there!
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