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    1) Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the elements in a periodic table in 1869, leaving blank spaces for undiscovered elements and accurately predicting some of their properties. 2) Students are given cards representing known elements and 9 unknown elements to arrange on the periodic table based on their properties and determine the identity of the unknown elements. 3) By observing trends in the properties of elements in groups 1, 2, 11, 13, 14, 17, and 18, students identified the 9 unknown elements as silicon, fluorine, rubidium, krypton, gold, strontium, germanium, magnesium, and thallium.

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    1) Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the elements in a periodic table in 1869, leaving blank spaces for undiscovered elements and accurately predicting some of their properties. 2) Students are given cards representing known elements and 9 unknown elements to arrange on the periodic table based on their properties and determine the identity of the unknown elements. 3) By observing trends in the properties of elements in groups 1, 2, 11, 13, 14, 17, and 18, students identified the 9 unknown elements as silicon, fluorine, rubidium, krypton, gold, strontium, germanium, magnesium, and thallium.

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    1) Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the elements in a periodic table in 1869, leaving blank spaces for undiscovered elements and accurately predicting some of their properties. 2) Students are given cards representing known elements and 9 unknown elements to arrange on the periodic table based on their properties and determine the identity of the unknown elements. 3) By observing trends in the properties of elements in groups 1, 2, 11, 13, 14, 17, and 18, students identified the 9 unknown elements as silicon, fluorine, rubidium, krypton, gold, strontium, germanium, magnesium, and thallium.

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    1) Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the elements in a periodic table in 1869, leaving blank spaces for undiscovered elements and accurately predicting some of their properties. 2) Students are given cards representing known elements and 9 unknown elements to arrange on the periodic table based on their properties and determine the identity of the unknown elements. 3) By observing trends in the properties of elements in groups 1, 2, 11, 13, 14, 17, and 18, students identified the 9 unknown elements as silicon, fluorine, rubidium, krypton, gold, strontium, germanium, magnesium, and thallium.

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    Name:____________________________ Date:____________ Class:_______________

    The Mendeleev Lab of 1869


    Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev is generally credited as being the first chemist to
    observe that patterns emerge when the elements are arranged according to their properties.
    Mendeleev’s arrangement of the elements was unique because he left blank spaces for elements
    that he claimed were undiscovered as of 1869. Mendeleev was so confident that he even
    predicted the properties of these undiscovered elements. His predictions were eventually proven
    to be quite accurate, and these new elements fill the spaces that originally were blank in his table.
    Use your knowledge of the periodic table to determine the identity of each of the nine
    unknown elements in this activity. The unknown elements are from the groups in the periodic
    table that are listed below. Each group listed below contains at least one unknown element.

    1 2 11 13 14 17 18

    None of the known elements serves as one of the nine unknown elements. No radioactive
    elements are used during this experiment. You may not use your textbook or other reference
    materials. You have been provided with enough information to determine each of the unknown
    elements.

    OBJECTIVES
    Observe the physical properties of common elements.
    Observe the properties and trends in the elements on the periodic table.
    Draw conclusions and identify unknown elements based on observed trends in properties.

    Procedure
    1. Cut the various cards out in the shapes of rectangles.
    2. Arrange and glue the cards on a blank sheet of paper in the proper order as seen on the
    periodic table being careful to leave empty spaces wherever appropriate.
    3. Once the cards of the known elements are in place, inspect the properties of the unknowns to
    see where their properties would best “fit” the trends of the elements of each group.
    4. Assign the proper element name to each of the unknowns. Add the symbol for each one of the
    unknown elements to your data table.
    6. Clean up your lab station.
    TABLE 1 UNKNOWN ELEMENTS IDENTIFICATION

    Unknown # Element Unknown # Element

    1 6

    2 7

    3 8

    4 9

    Conclusions
    1. Interpreting information Summarize your group’s reasoning for the assignment of each
    unknown. Explain in a few sentences exactly how you predicted the identity of the nine unknown
    elements.

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    ________________________________________________________________________

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    Unknown #1 = Silicon
    Unknown #2 = Fluorine
    Unknown #3 = Rubidium
    Unknown #4 = Krypton
    Unknown #5 = Gold
    Unknown #6 = Strontium
    Unknown #7 = Germanium
    Unknown #8 = Magnesium
    Unknown #9 = Thallium

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