fire, earth, air, water and aether..
He predicted that elements with the predicted properties would be discovered to fill in these gaps.
By 1869, a total of 63 elements had been discovered.
The gaps in the first periodic elements described those elements which were not discovered at that time. Eg-silicon,germanium etc
Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium.
Dalton discovered this in 1803.
many of the first discovered elements were named by greek and roman philosophers
Dalton
mud stone air fire
Mendeléev, Dmitri (1834-1907)Discovered periodicity of the elements. Compiled the first Periodic Table with elements arranged into 7 groups (1869).
Elements are discovered, they are not invented.
Neptunium and plutonium were discovered in United States in 1940.
The first twenty element was discover when there is science in the world
Element number 6 was one of the first elements discovered, so it is not widely known who discovered it.
Magnalium is an alloy of other elements. It is uncertain who first manufactured it
There were actually four elements discovered in the 1990s. Darmstadtium was discovered on November 9, 1994. Roentgenium was discovered on December 8, 1994. Copernicium was discovered on February 9, 1996. Flerovium was informally identified in January of 1999.
Because only 60 elements were discovered / known at that time
The first five states werent discovered they were founded