Dmitrti Mendeleev Facts
Dmitrti Mendeleev Facts
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| Interesting Dmitrti Mendeleev Facts: |
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| He was born near Tobolsk in Siberia |
| He was thought to have been the youngest child of a large family |
| His father was a teacher of fine arts but lost his job when he became blind |
| in 1849 his mother took him to St Petersburg to his father's alma mater to continue his education |
| He became a professor at the St Petersburg Technological Institute in 1864 |
| He received his Doctor of Science for his dissertation " on the Combinations of Water with Alcohol" in 1865 |
| He studied the composition of petroleum and help found the first oil refinery in Russia. |
| In 1868 her wrote the two volume textbook Principles of Chemistry which classified the known elements according to their chemical properties |
| March 6, 1869 Mendeleev made a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society entitled The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements |
| His understanding of the properties of elements based on their atomic weight and valence allowed him to accurately predict that new elements would be found |
| Some scientists dismissed this idea but Mendeleev was vindicated by the discovery of gallium in 1875 and germanium in 1875 which perfectly fit into the two missing spaces |
| Mendeleev is credited with introducing the metric system to Russia |
| Many things bear his name including, Mendelevium, a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Md and the atomic number 101 |
| Mendeleev is the name of a large lunar impact crater on the far side of the moon |
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