mendeleev's law

1. 1.

   (chemistry) the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers

   Synonymsperiodic law

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   chemistry

Questions about mendeleev's law

What does mendeleev's law mean?

mendeleev's law means "(chemistry) the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers".

What is another word for mendeleev's law?

Close synonyms include periodic law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mendeleev's law a common word?

mendeleev's law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.