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Periodic Table (1869)

The Periodic Table is the most elegant organizing principle in chemistry, enabling predictions of undiscovered elements. Dmitri Mendeleev's 1869 table arranged elements by atomic weight, and his predictions of gallium, scandium, and germanium were vindicated within 15 years.

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