Answer the following:
1. How could the modern periodic table remove various anomalies of Mendeleev’s periodic table?
2. In the modern periodic table, which are the metals, non-metals and metalloids among the first twenty elements?
3. What are the demerits of Mendeleev’s periodic table?
4. Define atomic size. How does it vary in a period and in a group?
(a) State the modern periodic law.
(b) How many periods and groups are there in the modern periodic table?