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Who arranged the periodic table, and when?

- Matt Lathan

The periodic table shows all the chemical elements which make up matter in an ordered and useful way. The current recognisab­le form began with a Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor, and he was able to use the periodic table that he had created to successful­ly predict elements which had not then been discovered. Since then, many more elements have been predicted and discovered, totalling 118 at present. Mendeleev was also famous for marrying a woman while he was still married to someone else and for standardis­ing the amount of alcohol in Russian vodka at 40 per cent. Element 107, mendeleviu­m, as well as the crater Mendeleev on the Moon, are named after him.

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