Mendeleev's law

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1.Mendeleev's law - (chemistry) the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbersperiodic lawlaw of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions