Example 1 · difficulty 2/5
Which feature of Newlands' arrangement directly illustrates the forced placement of elements in his scheme?
- A. He left systematic gaps for elements that had not yet been discovered
- B. He placed all noble gases between the halogens and alkali metals
- C. He ordered iodine before tellurium using atomic numbers
- D. He placed cobalt and nickel in the same slot and associated them with the column containing fluorine, chlorine and bromine