mendeléeff's law

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• Mendeléeff, Mendeleev — Dimitri (Dmitri) I., Russian chemist, 1834–1907. See mendelevium, M. law …   Medical dictionary

• Mendeleev's law — noun (chemistry) the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers • Syn: ↑periodic law • Topics: ↑chemistry, ↑chemical science • Hypernyms: ↑law, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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• Dmitri Mendeleev's predicted elements — Professor Dmitri Mendeleev published the first Periodic Table of the Atomic Elements in 1869 based on properties which appeared with some regularity as he laid out the elements from lightest to heaviest.[1] When Mendeleev proposed his periodic… …   Wikipedia