GK QUESTION#3302
Which of the following scientists grouped the elements into triads?
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D. Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner
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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner identified groups of three chemically similar elements called triads. In useful examples, the atomic weight of the middle element was approximately the average of the other two. Newlands proposed octaves, Mendeleev developed a periodic classification, and Moseley established the importance of atomic number.