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C2.1 Development of the periodic table

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Total cards: 8•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

How did John Dalton arrange the elements?

Back (Answer)

➢ In order of their atomic weights

#2
Front (Question)

How do Newlands arrange the known elements?

Back (Answer)

➢ Atomic weight

#3
Front (Question)

What did Newlands notice?

Back (Answer)

➢ That the properties of every eighth element seemed similar

#4
Front (Question)

Why did other scientists ridicule Newland’s ideas?

Back (Answer)

➢ Newland produced a table showing his law of octaves - he assumes all elements had been found ➢ Did not take account into discovering new ones ➢ Filled his law of octaves even though some of his elements were not similar at all ➢ His pattern only worked for the known elements up to calcium

#5
Front (Question)

How did Mendeleev arrange the elements?

Back (Answer)

➢ In order of their atomic weights ➢ Arranged them so that a periodic pattern in their properties could be seen

#6
Front (Question)

What did Mendeleev do?

Back (Answer)

➢ He left gaps for elements that had not yet been discovered ➢ Then he used his table to predict what their properties should be

#7
Front (Question)

How did Mendeleev’s prediction get proven?

Back (Answer)

➢ A few years later - new elements were discovered with properties that closely matched Mendeleev’s predictions

#8
Front (Question)

Why did not all the elements fit in with Mendeleev’s pattern?

Back (Answer)

➢ Ordering by atomic weights would result in argon ( a noble gas) being in the same group as reactive metals such as sodium and lithium