Because germanium was not known at the time when Mendeleev formulated his Periodic Table.
Mendeleev was able to predict the properties of the yet unknown element (Germanium) by the properties of the surrounding known elements on his periodic table of the elements. Predicting properties such as reactivity, density, atomic mass, etc., he knew where the undiscovered element would be placed.
Copper has been mined for about 5,000 years so it's exact origin is unknown. Since copper was a known element at the time that Dimitri Mendeleev first laid out his periodic table in 1869, it was included in that first periodic table. Other elements that were unknown at the time, like helium, were not included.
Unknown to Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer was also working on a periodic table. Although his work was published in 1864, and was done independently of Mendeleev, few historians regard him as an equal co-creator of the periodic table.
elements
the periodic table of elements In this table, elements having similar chemical properties are stacked up. The chemical properties are determined by how many free bonds an atom has open, which is related to how many electrons are in that element's outer shell.
Mendeleev was able to predict the properties of the yet unknown element (Germanium) by the properties of the surrounding known elements on his periodic table of the elements. Predicting properties such as reactivity, density, atomic mass, etc., he knew where the undiscovered element would be placed.
mixture of aluminum and an unknown element later called Germanium.
Gallium was named eka-aluminium by Mendeleev.
Ekasilicon is germanium['eka' is Sanskrit language for: 'first' place down under Si)Germanium was isolated in 1886, and provided the best confirmed prediction of Mendeleev's periodic table, which was built up before the discovery of Ge.(Professor Dmitri Mendeleev published the first Periodic Table of the Atomic Elements in 1869).When he proposed his periodic table, he noted some gaps in the table, and predicted that as-of-yet unknown elements existed with properties appropriate to fill those gaps.
=unknown 1: silicon/unknown 2: neon/unknown 3: rubidium/unknown 4: krypton/unknown 5: gold/unknown 6: strontium/unknown 7: magnesium/unknown 8:cesium/unknown 9: thallium==are those the answers?=
Copper has been mined for about 5,000 years so it's exact origin is unknown. Since copper was a known element at the time that Dimitri Mendeleev first laid out his periodic table in 1869, it was included in that first periodic table. Other elements that were unknown at the time, like helium, were not included.
Unknown to Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer was also working on a Periodic Table. Although his work was published in 1864, and was done independently of Mendeleev, few historians regard him as an equal co-creator of the periodic table.
Unknown to Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer was also working on a periodic table. Although his work was published in 1864, and was done independently of Mendeleev, few historians regard him as an equal co-creator of the periodic table.
A mixture of aluminum and an unknown element.
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In 1871 noble gases wee unknown.
A mixture of aluminum and an unknown element.