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Mendeleev placed iodine in the halogen group despite its lower atomic weight than which element?
ABromine
BAntimony
CTellurium
DSelenium
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Tellurium
Iodine has a lower atomic weight than tellurium, but Mendeleev put it with fluorine, chlorine and bromine because its properties matched them.
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