On a cold, snowy morning in February 1869, Professor Dmitri Mendeleyev was preparing to make a 300-mile journey from his home in St. Petersburg to a gathering of cheese makers. While the distinguished ...

This is Tuesday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2006 with 327 to follow. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (sometimes romanized Mendeleev or Mendeleef; Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Менделе́ев listen (help·info)) (8 ...

Everybody remembers trying to learn the periodic table in science lessons at school. The table is one of the fundamental building blocks of chemistry, explaining the relationship between different ...

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If Dmitri Mendeleev was alive, we’d be wishing him a happy birthday today. He’s not—and thank goodness, because he’d be a 180-year-old science-zombie. But Mendeleev’s periodic table of the elements is ...

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There are only a few developments that have organized the way we see the world. There is the classification system of the life sciences, which separated the world into the animal, mineral, and ...

Position on the chart reflects chemical properties, such as how easily an element combines with others. For instance, the elements in the far right column—helium, neon, argon, and so on—make up the ...

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