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What did the periodic table help scientists discover?

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Scientists can use the table to analyze reactivity among elements, predict chemical reactions, understand trends in periodic properties among different elements and speculate on the properties of those yet to be discovered.

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They discovered that *elements* show increase in atomic numbers across the period.
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