Question

Why is the periodic table so called?

Answer 1

Periodic table:

1. The periodic table organizes all known elements according to their properties so that elements with similar properties are grouped together in the same vertical column.
2. Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev discovered that elements with similar properties repeat at regular intervals when the elements are placed in order of increasing atomic weights.
3. The periodic table's name comes from the periodic behavior of its constituent components.
4. Periodicity develops as a result of the repeating of elements with identical outer electronic configurations at a regular interval of time.
5. Eighteen vertical columns called groups and seven horizontal rows called periods make up the periodic table.
6. The elements are arranged in ascending atomic number sequence so that they are stacked vertically under one another and have similar electrical configurations.

Therefore, the periodic table is so called because of its periodicity among its elements.