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Periodic table is a scientific model
Answer:
False
Explanation:
A significant number is a number that is used to express the accuracy in a measurement. There are some rules that binds the identification of significant figures when reporting a scientific measurement.
- All non-zero numbers are significant
- Zeros in between two digits are significant.
- Zeros to the right of the decimal are significant.
- Leading zeros are just place holders and are not significant.
- Trailing zero in a whole number with decimal is significant
- Trailing zero without a decimal is not significant.
source: http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/frontiers/web/chapter_5/6665.html
We can see that not all zeros in a measurement is significant. For example, 540 has 2 significant numbers because the zero is not significant but 540.2 has 4 significant numbers.
