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Merits of Mendeleev's Periodic Table

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Which important property did Mendeleev use to classify the elements in his periodic table ?

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Mendeleev used the atomic masses of the elements in classifying the elements in his periodic table. According to his law, the properties of elements are a periodic function of their atomic weights.

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