The Gaps He Left Empty

Dmitri Mendeleev sorted the known elements by weight, found that their properties repeat, and then did the dangerous thing: where the pattern demanded an element nobody had found, he left the square empty and published its predicted weight and density. Sort the cards, open the gaps, and check his 1871 numbers against the germanium found in 1886. Episode 06 of the Great Scientists series.

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