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Periodic Table Anomalies Resolved

Great Britain · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1914

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley1914

Oxford · Science / Physics

Explains why elements such as tellurium and iodine must be ordered contrary to atomic weight by showing that atomic number is the fundamental organising principle.

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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley

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