Question

What do you mean by eka - aluminum?

Answer 1

Mendeleev periodic table:

• “Mendeleev arranged elements in horizontal rows and vertical columns of a table in order of their increasing atomic weights".
• “The elements in a Mendeleev periodic table with similar properties occupied the same vertical column or group”.

Eka-Aluminium:

• Both Gallium and Germanium were not known at the time Mendeleev published his Periodic Table.
• “Eka” in Sanskrit is used to define the number one. He named it Eka means next because he believed that the elements will be similar to aluminum, boron, and silicon.
• He left the gap under Aluminium and named it Eka-Aluminium and a gap under Silicon and named it Eka-Silicon.
• He named Eka-Aluminium which was named Gallium later and Eka-Silicon was named Germanium after.