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Mendeleev's table
Do people refer to the periodic table of chemical elements as "Mendeleev's table" in English-speaking countries?
/Just curious, I've noticed that French people use "le tableau périodique" and "le tableau de Mendeleïev" pretty much interchangeably, but I'm not sure I ever heard "Mendeleev's table" in English./
Nov 9, 2019 7:14 AM
Answers · 7
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I have heard it used, and would know what it means, since it's something I refer to relatively regularly, and I was taught the history of it many many years ago.
But it isn't used very regularly.
November 9, 2019
1
Here is a Google N-gram showing that the phrase "periodic table" is used 99.9% of the time.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Mendeleev%27s+table%2C+periodic+table&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CMendeleev%20%27s%20table%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cperiodic%20table%3B%2Cc0
November 9, 2019
1
I’ve never heard of it referred to that way. “Periodic table” or “periodic table of the elements”
November 9, 2019
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