How Was The periodic table found? Flashcards

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Who started the development of the periodic table?

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Dimitri Mendeleev

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How did Dmitri Mendeleev develop the periodic table?

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Mendeleev realized that the physical and chemical properties of elements were related to their atomic mass in a ‘periodic’ way, and arranged them so that groups of elements with similar properties fell into vertical columns in his table.

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What element is named after Dmitri Mendeleev?

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Mendelevium

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4
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What group is the most reactive group

in the periodic table?

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Group 1 elements the the alkali metals

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What elements did Dmitri Mendeleev not find?

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Dmitri Mendeleev did not find gallium, germanium and scandium.

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How many elements did Dmitri Mendeleev discover?

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Dmitri Mendeleev discovered 63 elements

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7
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What elements are named after places?

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There’s:
polonium- Poland 
francium- France
nihonium- Japan
germanium - Germany
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8
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What elements are named after people? Name at least 3

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There’s-
bohrium -Niels Bohr curium -Marie and Pierre Curie
einsteinium-Albert Einstein
fermium -Enrico Fermi
lawrencium-Ernest Lawrence
roentgenium -Wilhelm Röntgen
rutherfordium -Ernest Rutherford
and seaborgium -Glenn T. Seaborg
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9
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Why are some elements named after a place?

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Sometimes elements are named after a place because that element might have been found there or manafactured there

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10
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How many elements are in the periodic table?

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There are 92 natural elements that exist

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