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Newlands Law of Octaves:

If the chemical elements are arranged according to increasing atomic weight, those with similar physical and chemical properties occur after each interval of seven elements.

Merits of Newlands Law if Octaves:

1)Newlands law of octave provided a basis for the classification of element on the basis of having similar properties into groups of elements.

2)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.

3) Newland's law of octaves was among the very first attempts to detect a periodic pattern in the properties of elements.