Given below are two statements : In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- Both Statement I and Statement II are false
- Statement I is false but Statement II is true
- Statement I is true but Statement II is false
- Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Answer
(1) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
Solution
Statement I: Newlands (Law of Octaves, 1865) arranged the elements in increasing order of their atomic weights; atomic numbers were not known then (Moseley, 1913) false.
Statement II: Lothar Meyer plotted physical properties such as atomic volume, melting point and boiling point against atomic weight (not atomic number) and observed a periodically repeated pattern false.
Both statements are false.
Answer: (1)