Mendeleev: the periodic system of elements

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Organized elements by atomic weight and chemical analogy, identified periodic properties and left positions for undiscovered elements.

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This record covers the 1869 atomic-weight system and its historical values, rather than a modern atomic-number table. It does not exhaust the contributions or priority of other pioneers.

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Mendeleev, On the Relationship of the Properties of the Elements to their Atomic Weights (1869), Carmen Giunta translation of the original German abstract

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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