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Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovitch
     
Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovitch
(1834-1907) a Russian scientist who invented the periodic table, which is a list of all the elements (=basic chemical substances) arranged according to their atomic number
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