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In Mendeleev's table the gap for eka-silicon had silicon (28.09 u) above, tin (118.71 u) below…

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In Mendeleev's table the gap for eka-silicon had silicon ( $28.09$ u) above, tin ( $118.71$ u) below, gallium ( $69.72$ u) to the left and arsenic ( $74.92$ u) to the right. Predict its atomic mass as the mean of the four neighbours. Germanium, found in 1886, has $72.63$ u. By what percentage is the prediction off?

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Dobereiner's triads: the atomic mass of the middle element of three similar elements is close to the mean of the other two. Newlands' law of octaves: every eighth element, in order of atomic mass, is like the first. Mendeleev's periodic law: the properties of the elements are a periodic function of their atomic masses; he left gaps and predicted unknown elements from their neighbours.

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