Question

Explain Newland's law of octaves.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Newland's Law of Octaves states that when Elements are arranged in increasing order of Atomic Mass, the properties of every eighth Element starting from any Element are a repetition of the properties of the starting Element.

Answer 2

Answer:

Newland's Law of Octaves states that when Elements are arranged in increasing order of Atomic Mass, the properties of every eighth Element starting from any Element are a repetition of the properties of the starting Element. Law of Octaves was true only for Elements up to Calcium.

Newlands was one of the first to detect a periodic pattern in the properties of the elements and anticipated later developments of the periodic law. Newland states that the elements having greater atomic masses cannot accommodate into octaves and could not be fit into the octave pattern.

For example, let us take a row from Newlands' classification of elements. If we take the elements Li, Be, B, C, N,O, F and Na, lithium (Li) is the first element, and sodium the eighth. It has been found that the properties of sodium are a repetition of the properties of lithium. In short, both lithium and sodium have similar chemical properties.