The Breakthrough Dmitri Mendeleev Had When Constructing the Periodic Table

question 9

Multiple Choice

The breakthrough Dmitri Mendeleev had when constructing the periodic table occurred ________.

• A) when J. J. Thomson discovered the electron
• B) when Sir James Chadwick discovered the neutron
• C) when Thomson and E. Goldstein discovered the proton
• D) when Mendeleev placed the elements in a sequence of increasing atomic mass

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