What do the horizontal and vertical columns in the periodic table represent?

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Solution

The most convenient and widely used version of the Periodic Table of the Elements is the so-called "long-form" version.
Periods are the horizontal rows (which Mendeleev named series) and groups are the vertical columns.

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