In what year did Dmitri Mendeleev publish his first version of the periodic table?

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1869

Mendeleev famously organized elements by atomic weight and predicted the existence of elements that hadn't been discovered yet. He reportedly saw the complete arrangement of the table in a dream after working on it for three days.

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