Wednesday 20 April 2016

history of chemistry - How was Mendeleev able to develop his table?


I asked my general chem instructor this and he didn't know:


Mendeleev was able to group elements and discovered a bunch of them and put them in the correct order in the mid-1800s. What equipment did he use to do this? Was he just weighing stuff and guessing?


Specifically, how did he figure out atomic weight?




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