How was Mendeleev's assumption that not all of the elements were known at the time of his first publication of the Periodic Table astute?
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Mendeleev's notion that not all the elements were known was indeed astute............
Explanation:
Why? Because, it laid the basis for further discoveries that could be interpreted on a Periodic basis.
And within a few years of the first publication of the Periodic Table, several new elements had been discovered: (i)
These predictions were powerful evidence of the periodic nature of the elements. Later discoveries, notably Rutherford's discovery of
