d and f BLOCK ELEMENTS Quiz

• They were competing theories that contradicted each other
• They were completely unrelated concepts
• Newlands' octaves built upon the idea of property recurrence suggested by triads
• Dobereiner's triads were more accurate than Newlands' octaves

• The time it takes for an element to decay
• The circular arrangement of elements
• The regular intervals at which similar properties recur
• The frequency of electron vibrations

• John Newlands
• Dmitri Mendeleev
• Lothar Meyer
• A.E.B. de Chancourtois

• His work was proven incorrect
• His model used geological terminology and was not widely recognized at the time
• He did not publish his findings
• His model only worked for metals

• Mendeleev used atomic number, Meyer used atomic weight
• Mendeleev focused on gases, Meyer focused on solids
• Mendeleev emphasized prediction while Meyer emphasized graphical representation
• Mendeleev worked alone, Meyer collaborated with others