The purpose of this lab is to understand how the elements in similar groups are together because of similar properties the elements share. Like Mendeleev, we had made connections toward the creation of the periodic table. When finding the unknown elements we used other known elements as guides and looked for similar properties. Like the Periodic Table today, it is organized through similar properties of each element and categorized in groups. Dimitri Mendeleev was a chemist from Russia who lived in poverty and was the only one of seventeen siblings to attend school. Mendeleev then created the first periodic table from his finding through periodic law, which he also created. Medeleev was a major contributor to chemistry through the modern
