Mendeleev found that when he arranged the known elements according to their atomic mass, the entries in the table exhibited a pattern of chemical properties that repeated itself in groups of eight elements. This led to the generalization now known as:

A. an atomic model.
B. the periodic table.
C. valance electrons.
D. the octet rule.


Answer: D

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