What was the limitation of Dobereiner law of triads?
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Dobereiner could find only three triads; . i.e total of 9 elements only. However the total number of elements were more than that of those encompassed in Dobereiner's Triad. Thus, Dobereiner's could not be classify most of the elements known at that time.
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Dobereiner's Triads
Dobereiner classified elements into groups of three (triad) where "The Atomic Weight of the middle element was the Average of the other two elements"
Example : Ca (Calcium) , Sr (Strontium) , Ba (Barium)
- Atomic weight of Ca = 40 a.m.u
- Atomic weight of Sr = 88 a.m.u
- Atomic weight of Ba = 137 a.m.u
Here Middle Element is Sr
⇒ 88 = (40 + 137)/2 ⇒ 88 = 177/2 ⇒ 88 = 88
Merits : The main achievement of this classification is that it recognized a relationship between properties of elements and their atomic weights
Drawbacks of this classification : The Drawbacks of this classification of this classification are as follows :-
- Some elements which are dissimilar were being grouped into a triad
- There are many elements that cannot be grouped into triads was proposed by Dobereiner