Mendeleyev

/ mɪndɪˈljejɪf /

noun

1. Dmitri Ivanovich (ˈdmitrij iˈvanəvitʃ). 1834–1907, Russian chemist. He devised the original periodic table of the elements (1869)

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Mendeleyev used a slightly different approach, placing his elements into groups of seven, but employed fundamentally the same principle.

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State Department said it lifted sanctions imposed in 1999 against the Dmitri Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology and the Moscow Aviation Institute.

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As to immorality, it is not people like Mendeleyev but poets, abbots, and personages regularly attending Embassy churches, who have the reputation of being perverted debauchees, libertines, and drunkards.

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Mendeleyev was said to have been inspired by the card game known as solitaire in North America and patience elsewhere, wherein cards are arranged by suit horizontally and by number vertically.

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Mendeleyev dutifully completed his studies and eventually landed a position at the local university.

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