Different elements are always being discovered 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The periodic table of elements has been around for a very, very long time. Lot's of people have been working on the table to finish it and make it complete, but they say most of the credit should be given to a Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. He must have put forth the most effort out of all the scientists. He was born in Tobolsk Siberia in 1834. People calls him the father of the periodic table. The main reasons the periodic table was invented was to help make it easier for chemists, scientists, and even students to see the complex world of chemical reactions. However Mendeleev died January 20. 1907 at the age of 73. His science gift did not end there because that just shows you how his gift of chemistry passed on and how all the other famous chemists are still working on the periodic table of elements to make it bigger and better than ever before. Scientist discovered on October 16, 2006 that there were 117 elements all together. Some of the old elements that have been known for thousands of years are gold, copper, carbon, and silver. Others like meitnerium, darmstadtium, and ununquadium have just recently been discovered. Each element is made up entirely of 1 type of atom. Above to the right you can see the five most important elements from the periodic table. I hope you have learned as much about the periodic table of elements as I have. This is really cool stuff and it's actually fun to learn about!!!
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