• Question: Who created the periodic table?#im the best

    Asked by Theres nothing wrong with being small to Jos, Kate, Lisa on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Joshaniel Cooper

      Joshaniel Cooper answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Dmitri Mendeleev. He put the elements into their order and then used properties about the surrounding ones to work out what the missing ones looked like (this was in 1863 when lots of elements hadn’t been discovered yet)

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      I think the ability for the Periodic Table to predict the existence, and behaviour of new elemts that hadn’t been invented was one of the reasons it was adopted relatively quickly.

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