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The original periodic table was useful because it could be used to predict properties of

elements that had not yet been discovered.

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Answer: Yes. But that was until a guy named Dmitri Mendeleev corrected the known atomic masses of some elements and used the patterns in his table to predict the properties of the elements he thought must have exist.

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Yes this is true because you can combine elements
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