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• Dmitri Mendeleev

In what year did Mendeleev publish his textbook Organic Chemistry?

Answer

1861

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Dmitri Mendeleev

What synthetic element sits immediately after mendelevium in the periodic table?

Answer

nobelium

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• Dmitri Mendeleev

What was the given name of Mendeleev's first wife, Leshcheva?

Answer

Feozva

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• Dmitri Mendeleev

What disease did Mendeleev contract after graduation, prompting his move to Crimea?

Answer

tuberculosis

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What city did Mendeleev's family move to when he entered the Main Pedagogical Institute in 1850?

Answer

Saint Petersburg

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• Dmitri Mendeleev

What was the first name of Dmitri Mendeleev's father?

Answer

Ivan

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Dmitri Mendeleev

What proposed element did Mendeleev identify as the heavier of two hypothetical elements lighter than hydrogen?

Answer

Coronium

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Dmitri Mendeleev

Which Sanskritist friend of Mendeleev was preparing a second edition of a book on Panini?

Answer

Otto von Bohtlingk

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• Dmitri Mendeleev

The prefixes eka, dvi, and tri used by Mendeleev come from what language?

Answer

Sanskrit

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Dmitri Mendeleev

Which element did Mendeleev place before iodine despite its higher atomic weight?

Answer

Tellurium

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Dmitri Mendeleev

To what valence did Mendeleev correct uranium in his periodic system?

Answer

6

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• Dmitri Mendeleev

Which English chemist described the Law of Octaves before Mendeleev's table?

Answer

John Newlands

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