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What were the limitations of Dobreiner's classification?

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Solution :He CLASSIFIED in group of three such that atomic No. of middle ELEMENTS is average of first and third element. Eg: Li(7), Na(23), K(39), Limitations :
* Dobereiner could find only three triads, i.e. TOTAL of 9 elements only.
* However the total number of elements were more than that of those encompassed in Dobereiner.s triad.
* THUS Dobereiner could not classify most of the elements known at that time..


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