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The History of the Periodic Table

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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
March 08, 2022 14:30

In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev delivered a full paper to the Russian Chemical Society spelling out the most significant aspect of his system: that characteristics of the elements recur at a periodic interval as a function of their atomic weight. This was the first iteration of the periodic law.

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