The History of the Periodic Table

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Who arranged the elements according to atomic mass?
John Newlands
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Newlands after arranging the elements in mass, that every eighth element possessed similar qualities, this was called?
law of octaves
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The pattern of the law of octaves only worked up until which element?
Calcium
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Newlands was --------- by other scientists for his ideas?
Ridiculed
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Who arranged the elements according to atomic mass but in a periodic way?
Mendeleev
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Mendeleev's idea meant elements fell into the same ------- in his table
Columns
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What was Mendeleev's big breakthrough?
blank spaces
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Mendeleev's ideas were more widely accepted later on when new elements were discovered and ------ into the blank spaces in his table
fitted
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In the modern periodic table, elements are arranged according to their?
Proton number
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Arranging by proton number was more successful as it solved problems in Mendeleev's table with Argon and Potassium being in the same?
Group
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In the modern periodic table we can find the group number of an element by looking at its what?
Electronic Structure
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