The Purpose Of Mendeleev's Lab

The purpose of Mendeleev’s lab was to determine the identity of each unknown element. Mendeleev was a Russian chemist who discovered elements, his arrangement was unique because he left blank spaces for the elements that were undiscovered. We had to observe the physical properties of the common elements.Our activity as a group was to cut out the cards and identify the unknown elements of the blank parts of the periodic table. The way we would determine what element it was we looked at it’s characteristics such as density and color. We first organized the known elements, then placed the unknown depending on the known elements by the group or row.

My group and I determined where the unknown elements were located by observing their density and