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What are the Achievements of the Law of Octaves?

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Achievements of the Law of Octaves

• The law of octaves was the first logical attempt to classify elements on the basis of atomic weights.

• Periodicity of elements was recognized for the first time.

In 1860, there was a conference of chemists in Karl Sruhe, Germany. A young Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev, attending this conference, was deeply influenced by a thesis presented by Stanislao Cannizaro, which described Cannizaro's method of determining atomic mass of elements. Mendeleev then started working on this aspect of atomic mass and periodicity. He later on stated the law of chemical periodicity.



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