Many scientists worked on the problem of organizing the elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev published his first version of the periodic table in 1869, and is most often credited as its inventor. Since then ...

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However, he is remembered for his search for a pattern in inorganic chemistry. Just four years before Mendeleev announced his periodic table, Newlands noticed that there were similarities between ...

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Mitch André Garcia considers the disputed discovery of element ... at how the chemistry of this synthetic element is developing. Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic table, was ...

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The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE chemistry students studying the physical and chemical properties of group 0 elements (noble gases), group 1 elements (alkali metals) and group 7 ...

Electronegativity, an essential characteristic of all elements in the periodic table, measures an atom's ability to attract electrons towards itself within a chemical bond. This vital theoretical ...