Answer:
Various limitations of Mendeleev's periodic table are:-
Position of hydrogen - he couldn't assign a correct position to hydrogen as it showed properties of both alkali and halogens .
Position of isotopes - he considered that the properties of elements are a function of their atomic masses. Hence isotopes of a same element couldn't be placed.
In the d-block , elements with lower atomic number were placed before higher atomic number.
Explanation:
I believe it means that it takes a lot of heat in joules to make silicon vaporize so it stays solid until a great deal of heat has been added. By comparison, water has a latent heat of about 2260 joules per gram so vaporizes much more readily than silicon.
