The first periodic table was presented on March 6, 1869, and revised in 1871 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who placed elements in columns according to their chemical properties. Based on the periodic law that guided the arrangement of the table, Mendeleev predicted the existence and properties of three elements that had not yet been discovered: scandium, gallium, and germanium.
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