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| | New Insights Into The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Today, the periodic table has 116 elements, the most recent of which was added just last month - an element that for now is known as element 118 for the number of protons in its nucleus, more than in any other element. |
 | | Most of the credit for the periodic table has gone to a distinguished Russian scientist named Dimitri Ivanovich Mendelev, who was the last of the six scientists to present a periodic table in the 1860s. |
 | | On the day he devised the periodic system, he was supposed to inspect a cheese factory, Scerri said, and decided not to go; Mendelev sketched his first periodic table on the back of an invitation that day, Feb. 17, 1869. |
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