Elements that occupy the same column on the periodic table (called a "group") have identical valence electron configurations and consequently behave in a similar fashion chemically. For instance ...
The underlying reason for these trends is electron configurations of atoms. The first periodic table to become generally accepted was that of the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869: he ...
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