Periodic Table for Android

11 things about Periodic Table

1. The periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements, organized on the basis of their atomic numbers, electron configurations, and recurring chemical properties.

2. Production of elements having higher atomic numbers is being pursued, with the question of how the periodic table may need to be modified to accommodate any such additions being a matter of ongoing debate.

3. Mendeleev's periodic table has since been expanded and refined with the discovery or synthesis of further new elements and the development of new theoretical models to explain chemical behavior.

4. Since, by definition, a periodic table incorporates recurring trends, any such table can be used to derive relationships between the properties of the elements and predict the properties of new, yet to be discovered or synthesized, elements.

5. He developed his table to illustrate periodic trends in the properties of the then-known elements.

6. All elements from atomic numbers 1 (hydrogen) to 118 (ununoctium) have been discovered or reportedly synthesized, with elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 having yet to be confirmed.

7. Mendeleev also predicted some properties of then-unknown elements that would be expected to fill gaps in this table.

8. The standard form of the table consists of a grid of elements laid out in 18 columns and 7 rows, with a double row of elements below that.

9. Elements with atomic numbers from 99 to 118 have only been synthesized, or claimed to be so, in laboratories.

10. Although precursors exist, Dmitri Mendeleev is generally credited with the publication, in 1869, of the first widely recognized periodic table.

11. The first 98 elements exist naturally although some [n 1] are found only in trace amounts and were initially discovered by synthesis in laboratories.