The Periodic Table and its History

This set of MCQs helps you brush up on important chemistry topics and prepare you to dive into skill practice.

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The first list of 23 elements was compiled in the late 1790s by which French scientist?

Lother Meyer

John Newlands

Antione Lavoisier

Dmitri Mendeleev

This English scientist noticed that the properties of elements repeat with every eighth element. He attempted to arrange the elements using the octave as a basis in 1864. Who was he?

Lothar Meyer

John Newlands

Antione Lavoisier

Dmitri Mendeleev

This German chemist was a contemporary of Dmitri Mendeleev in that he also discovered the relationship between atomic mass and elemental properties. However, he did not publish his results in time. What was his name?

Lothar Meyer

John Newlands

Henry Moseley

Antione Lavoisier

In spite of Mendeleev's version of the periodic table being accepted, it contained a fundamental flaw. Ordering the elements by atomic mass led to some elements being out of place. In 1913, an English chemist decided to order the elements by their atomic numbers. Who was this man?

John Newlands

Lothar Meyer

Antione Lavoisier

Henry Moseley

The statement that there is a periodic repetition of physical and chemical properties of the elements when arranged by increasing atomic number is known as what?

The Mendeleevian Rule

Periodic Law

Periodic Table

The Lavoisier Principle

The periodic table is arranged in a series of columns, is known as ____.

Groups

Periods

Columns

Rows

Who was the scientist credited with devising the first periodic table similar to the one we use today?

Gregor Mendel

Ernest Rutherford

Dmitri Mendeleev

John Dalton

True or False, The Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev proposed a periodic table similar to the one we use today in 1869.

True

False

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: The Periodic Table and its History
Questions: 8
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