MORSHED LAB
CHAPTER: LAW
ERA: 1869 · MENDELEEV
FOCUS
H · Z=1
IE: 13.6 eV
THE PERIODIC LAW
When Dmitri Mendeleev arranged elements by increasing atomic mass in 1869, patterns repeated every column — similar chemistry returned at regular intervals. He left gaps for undiscovered elements and predicted their properties (gallium, germanium). The table is not a list — it is a map of how electrons structure matter.