The Periodic Table was created in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitry I. Mendeleev. According to a BBC report, Mendeleev realized that the “physical and chemical properties of elements were related to their atomic mass in a ‘periodic’ way, and arranged them so that groups of elements with similar properties fell into vertical columns in his table.” This periodic Read the rest of this article
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