Chemistry GCSE
Prediction and confirmation in science
What Prediction and confirmation in science means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Mendeleev forecast the properties of missing elements, and later discoveries matched his predictions, showing a model tested and strengthened by new evidence.
Topics that use Prediction and confirmation in science
- Development of the periodic table (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Conflict between ordering principle and chemical properties
- Development of the periodic table
- Discovery of new elements
- Evidence-based acceptance of models
- Incompleteness of scientific evidence
- Isotopes
- Limitations of early classification systems
- Predictive power of scientific models
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