The modern Periodic table, part of which is shown here, is similar
to the first table of the elements created by Dmitri Mendeleev.

Point to the symbols to view the history of the elements.
  1
    HYDROGEN - a gas discovered by Henry Cavendish, England in 1766. 		2
   HELIUM, a gas, discovered by Pierre Jansen, France, 1868 by observing the spectrum of the Sun.
3
    LITHIUM, a reactive metal discovered by Johan Arfvedson, Sweden, in 1817.		 4
   BERYLLIUM, a metal, discovered by Nicholas Vauquelin, France, 1797.		 5
    BORON, a non-metal, discovered by Humphrey Davy, England, and Joseph-Louise Gay-Lussac, France, 1808.		 6
   CARBON, a non-metal, known since ancient times although not recognised as an element until much later.		 7
   NITROGEN, a gas, discovered by Daniel Rutherford, Scotland, in 1772.		 8
   OXYGEN, a gas, discovered by Joseph Priesley, England, and Carl William Scheele, Sweden, 1774.		 9
   FLUORINE, a reactive gas, discoverd by Henri Moissan, France, 1886.		 10
   NEON, an unreactive gas, discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers, England, in 1898.
11
    SODIUM, a reactive metal, discovered by Humphrey Davy, England, 1807.		 12
   MAGNESIUM, a metal discovered by, Humphrey Davy, England, 1755.		 13
   ALUMINIUM, a metal, discovered by Hans Christian Oersted, Denmark, in 1825.		 14
   SILICON, a non-metal, discovered by Jons Jakob Berzelius, Sweden, in 1824.		 15
   PHOSPHORUS, a reactive non-metal, discovered by Hennig Brand, Germany, in 1669.		 16
   SULFUR, a non-metal, known since ancient times.		 17
   CHLORINE, a reactive gas, discovered by Carl William Scheele, Sweden, 1774.		 18
   ARGON, an unreactive gas, discovered by William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh, Scotland, in 1894.
19
    POTASSIUM, a reactive metal, discovered by Humphrey Davy, England, in 1807.		 20
   CALCIUM, a reactive metal, discovered by Humphrey Davy, England, in 1808.

Mendeleev's table

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