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The History of the Periodic Table.
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The History of the Periodic Table. The organization of the modern periodic table is perhaps one of the most significant tasks undertaken in chemistry. It is the purpose of this essay to introduce the history of the periodic table and briefly discuss how and who modified it. Today there are 109 known elements, and these are usually displayed in the form of a matrix called a periodic table. The term periodic came from the regular occurrence of certain chemical properties in the list of known elements when these are arranged in order of increasing relative mass. The rectangular periodic table is familiar to anybody who gas ever been in a science laboratory or classroom. Several European scientists created this ingenious functional grouping of the chemical elements in the decade of the 1860's. In 1863, a 44-year-old French geologist, A. E. Béguyer de Chancourtois created a list of the elements arranged...
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