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The reason that Mendeleev didn't make any predictions about the gases was that these gases were not even discovered yet, therefore it was impossible for Mendeleev to make predictions.

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Dmitri Mendeleev made his predictions on what would fill the gaps on his far from perfect Periodic Table. He predicted their sizes, weights, appearances, etc.

I think the reason he didn't make predictions is because noble gases are not visible, and weightless.

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Mendeleev couldn't predict the noble gases' properties because their existence wasn't known, as implied above.

Argon, a noble gas, was noticed twenty-five years later by John William Strutt and Sir William Ramsey (the names are not really important).

It doesn't matter that the elements weren't discovered. That's the whole point of arranging the elements. To PREDICT the properties of the missing/unknown ones.

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