1. 1. Mendeléev took 63 cards and on each card he wrote down the properties of one element. 2. He sorted out the elements with similar properties and pinned the cards together on a wall.

    1. Mendeléev took 63 cards and on each card he wrote down the properties of one element.
    2. He sorted out the elements with similar properties and pinned the cards together on a wall.

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  2. 1. Only applicable till Calcium. 2. We can fill only 56 elements in this table. These is no place to fit rest elements. 3. In order to fit elements into his Table, Newlands adjusted two elements in the same slot, but also put some unlike elements under the same slot. 4. Cobalt and nickel are in theRead more

    1. Only applicable till Calcium.
    2. We can fill only 56 elements in this table. These is no place to fit rest elements.
    3. In order to fit elements into his Table, Newlands adjusted two elements in the same slot, but also put some unlike elements under the same slot.
    4. Cobalt and nickel are in the same slot and these are placed in the same column as fluorine, chlorine and bromine which have very different properties than these elements.
    5. Iron, which resembles cobalt and nickel in properties, has been placed far away from these elements.
    6. With the discovery of noble gases, the Law of Octaves became irrelevant.
    7. Newlands’ Law of Octaves worked well with lighter elements only.

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