#KnowledgeBit: Russian chemist Dmitri #Mendeleev was the first to arrange elements in the structure we know as the periodic table. Mendeleev was a lover of card games and used a solitaire sorting strategy of columns and rows to help arrange the elements.

Periodic Table of the Elements: Origins of the Elements.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873

#PeriodicTable Day is celebrated on February 7th to commemorate the publication of the first recognized periodic table of elements in 1863 by English chemist John Newlands. #PeriodicTableDay

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