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Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic Table: Multiple Choice
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- 01Dmitri Mendeleev, the principal creator of the first version of the periodic table, was of what nationality?
- 02Which group of elements was completely unknown at the time of Mendeleev's initial work and thus had no place in his original periodic table?
- 03Besides Dmitri Mendeleev, which German chemist independently published a very similar periodic table around the same time?
- 04To maintain columns with similar chemical properties, Mendeleev placed which element *after* Tellurium, despite it having a slightly lower atomic mass?
- 05The modern periodic table is ordered by atomic number, not atomic mass. Which physicist's work in 1913 led to this fundamental reordering?
- 06In which year did Dmitri Mendeleev publish his first influential periodic table of elements?
- 07What was the primary reason Mendeleev famously left gaps in his periodic table?
- 08Which element, discovered in 1875, had properties predicted by Mendeleev, who had called it 'eka-aluminium'?
- 09Mendeleev arranged the elements in his periodic table primarily in order of increasing what property?
- 10Which synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 101 is named in honor of Dmitri Mendeleev?