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When the Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev devised the Periodic Table in 1869, he was able to use it for much more impressive feats of deduction. He correctly predicted elements that had not yet been discovered: not just that they existed, but what they behaved like, their densities, and their melting points.
To understand how and why this information is encrypted «in the Periodic Table», we need – and not before time, to define what we mean by an element.