The genius of Mendeleev’s periodic table
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The elements had been listed and carefully arranged before Dmitri Mendeleev. They had even been organized by similar properties before. So why is Mendeelev’s periodic table the one that has endured? Lou Serico explains via Ekaaluminium, an element whose existence Mendeelev predicted decades before it was discovered.
How do you think Mendeleev was able to so accurately estimate the properties of undiscovered elements?
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Meet The Creators
- Director Biljana Labović
- Artist Celeste Lai, Nick Sumida
- Animator Franz Palomares
- Educator Lou Serico
- Narrator Lou Serico
