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Which modern element was called eka-silicon by Dmitri Mendeleev?
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Dmitri Mendeleev
The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
The modern element that Dmitri Mendeleev referred to as eka-silicon is germanium.
In 1871, while developing his periodic table, Mendeleev predicted the existence and properties of several then-unknown elements based on gaps in his system. He used the prefix "eka-" (from the Sanskrit word for "one") to indicate that the hypothetical element stood one place below a known element in the same chemical family. Consequently, he named the element predicted to exist below silicon "eka-silicon." The element was later discovered in 1886 by the German chemist Clemens Winkler, who named it germanium.12