Newlands law of octaves:
Mar 14, 2021
After the failure of Dobereiner traids, an English scientist John Newlands in 1886 tried an attempt to classify elements.In his classification he arranged the known elements in increasing atomic masses.He started his classification from hydrogen(i.e. lowest atomic mass element) and ended his classification to thorium which was the 56th element.
Newland’s law of octaves states that the eighth element had properties similar to that of the first.He named this eight elements as Octaves because he compared this to the octaves found in music.
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