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Development
of The
Periodic Table
 What are
ELEMENTS?
Is a substance that cannot
be broken down into a
simpler substance.

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 Sodium (Na)
Gold (Au)

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 Many
more!
Silver (Ag)

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 But where
did the idea
of these
“elements”
first came
from
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 The Beginning

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 The idea of ATOM and ELEMENTS

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 Empedocles’s idea about

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 The Beginning

400 BCE 1700’s

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 Antoine Lavoisier

Listed 33 known Elements

according to metallic
properties

Elastic Fluids,
nonmetals, metals
and earthly solid
metals.
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 Antoine Lavoisier

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 The Beginning

400 BCE 1700’s 1803

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 John Dalton
Published a list of elements
with corresponding symbols.

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 John Dalton

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 John Dalton proposed…

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 The Beginning

400 BCE 1700’s 1803 1848

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 Jöns Jacob Berzelius

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The Law of Triads
Johann Dobereiner
 Dobereiner’s Triads
Group of 3 Elements with similar
properties
Ca Ba
Na
K I Sr Te
Li
Cl S
Br Se
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 The Law of Triads

Atomic
Triad
Weight
Arranged in an
Calcium 40
INCREASING
Strontium 88
Barium 137
order of their
Atomic Weight
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 The Law of Triads
Atomic Average Value of 1st
Triad
Weight and 3rd Elements
Lithium 7 7 + 39
Sodium = 23
23 2
Potassium 39

The atomic weight of the Middle element

Was the average of the atomic weights of the
First and third elements
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 Other Triads did not obey the rule
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 Other Triads did not obey the rule
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The Telluric Screw
Alexandre-Emile
Beguyer de Chancourtois
 The Telluric Screw

He drew the elements

as a continuous spiral
around a metal
cylinder divided into
16 parts.
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 The Telluric Screw

Geometric
representation of
the Periodic
Table

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The Law of Octaves
John Newlands
 Newland’s Octaves
56 Elements were discovered

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 Newland’s Octaves
Arranged increasingly according to their
ATOMIC MASSES

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 Newland’s Octaves

Found that every 8th Element

Had similar properties to that of the first
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 The Law of Octave

The law of Octaves was patterned after the

Musical Notes.
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 Newland’s Octaves
Newland could only arrange the elements
only up to calcium

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 Newland’s Octaves
Newland could only arrange the elements
only up to calcium

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 The Basis

Of the Modern

PERIODIC TABLE
Mendeleev's Periodic
Table
Dmitri Mendeleev
 Mendeleev's Periodic Table

Examined the relationship

between the atomic masses of
the elements

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 Mendeleev's Periodic Table

Examined the relationship

between the atomic masses of
the elements

And their physical and chemical

properties

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 Mendeleev believed that…

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The Modern Periodic
Table
Henry Moseley
 Moseley discovered that…

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