2019, the International Year of the Periodic Table, marks
the 150th anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev's formal presentation of
his Periodic Table to the Russian Chemical Society on 6th March
1869.
His Periodic Table is arguably the most important breakthrough in the history of Chemistry because it not only organised the elements into groups based on their properties, it also continues to allow us to make predictions about the physical and chemical properties of elements.
Yet, despite its predictive capacity, Mendeleev failed to predict an entire group of elements!
His Periodic Table is arguably the most important breakthrough in the history of Chemistry because it not only organised the elements into groups based on their properties, it also continues to allow us to make predictions about the physical and chemical properties of elements.
Yet, despite its predictive capacity, Mendeleev failed to predict an entire group of elements!
Read all about it in the March 2019 issue of AUS-e-NEWS.
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