Mendeleev periodic table

He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium , but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered germanium , gallium and scandium.

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Maria Kornilieva came from a well-known family of Tobolsk merchants, founders of the first Siberian printing house who traced their ancestry to Yakov Korniliev, a 17th-century posad man turned a wealthy merchant. Memories about D. Mendeleev where she voiced "a family legend" about Maria's grandfather who married "a Kyrgyz or Tatar beauty whom he loved so much that when she died, he also died from grief".

Mendeleev was raised as an Orthodox Christian , his mother encouraging him to "patiently search divine and scientific truth". Mendeleev was the youngest of 17 siblings, of whom "only 14 stayed alive to be baptized" according to Mendeleev's brother Pavel, meaning the others died soon after their birth. His mother was forced to work and she restarted her family's abandoned glass factory.

At the age of 13, after the passing of his father and the destruction of his mother's factory by fire, Mendeleev attended the Gymnasium in Tobolsk. In , his mother took Mendeleev across Russia from Siberia to Moscow with the aim of getting Mendeleev enrolled at the Moscow University. The mother and son continued to Saint Petersburg to the father's alma mater.

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After graduation, he contracted tuberculosis , causing him to move to the Crimean Peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in While there, he became a science master of the 1st Simferopol Gymnasium. In , he returned to Saint Petersburg with fully restored health. Between and , he worked on the capillarity of liquids and the workings of the spectroscope in Heidelberg.

Later in , he published a textbook named Organic Chemistry.