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1862

Alexandre-Emile Beguyer de Chancourtois1862

Paris · Science / Chemistry

Arranges elements by atomic weight around a cylinder and observes repeating chemical properties, creating one of the earliest explicitly periodic classifications.

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Alexandre-Emile Beguyer de Chancourtois

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