D.I. MENDELEYEV (1834-1907)

1. A Russian name appeared in 1964 on the honorary board¹ of science at Bridgeport University, USA: Mendeleyev was added to the list of the greatest geniuses — Euclid, Archimedes, Coperni­cus, Galilei, Newton and Lavoisier. D.I. Mendeleyev, the explorer of nature, is the greatest chemist of the world. The Mendeleyev system has served for almost 100 years as a key to discovering new elements and it has retained its key capacity until now.

2. D.I. Mendeleyev was the fourteenth, and last child of the Director of the Gymnasium at Tobolsk. At 16 he was taken by his mother to St. Petersburg to seek higher education. He entered the Pedagogical Institute where his father has also studied. In 1856 he look a degree in chemistry and in 1859 he was sent abroad for two years for further training. He returned to St. Petersburg in 1861 as Professor of Chemistry.

3. In 1868 Mendeleyev began to write a great textbook of chemistry, known in its English translation as the "Principles of Chemistry". In compiling this² he tried to Find some system of classifying the elements — some sixty in all³ then known — whose properties he was describing. This led him to formulate the Pe­riodic Law, which earned him lasting international fame. He pre­sented it verbally⁴ to the Russian Chemical Society in October 1868 and published it in February 1869.

4. In this paper he set out clearly his discovery that if the ele­ments are arranged in order of their atomic weights, chemically related elements appear at regular intervals. The greatness of Mendeleyev's achievement lies in the fact that he had discovered a generalization that not only unified an enormous amount of ex­isting information but pointed the way to further progress.

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What can you say about the greatness of Mendeleyev's dis­covery?

1. The greatness of Mendeleyev's achievement lies in the fact that his Periodic Table pointed the way to further progress in chemistry.

2. Mendeleyev had discovered several new elements.

3. Mendeleyev created the system of classifying chemical ele­ments.

 

Вопросы для контроля остаточных знаний

1. Местоимение

2. Числительное

3. Образование множественного числа существительных

4. Степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий

5. Употребление артиклей

6. Времена, группы Indefinite

7. Времена, группы Continis

8. Времена, группы Perfect Continis

9. Продательный залог группы неопределенных времен

10. Продательный залог группы продолженных времен

11. Страдательный залог перфектной группы

12. Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты

13. Инфинитив

14. Герундий

15. Причастие

 

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