How come there are no gaps in the table? If there are 118 elements currently, and the next element to be discovered/created has an atomic number of 120, would there just be a gap at 119th position?
How come we managed to find/create every element without any gaps in the periodic table?
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Because the gaps in the periodic table give us clues about what properties the atom has and therefore where to find it.
Initially the periodic table did have a lot of gaps but because of its predictive power it made it much easier to fill in these gaps over time.
Look up a history of the periodic table to get more info
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