The classification of it being a metal, nonmetal, or metalliod will be useful in the process of elimination to determine what it is. Then for the second test, meauring the atomin radius will narrow it down quicker to the mystery elemet's name.
Since you determined what part of the periodic table it's on, then when measuring the atomic radius, you should be able to pinpoint what the element is more surely.
In order to become a scientific theory the three
categories that it must pass are the following:
1) Can the phenomena be recreated in a laboratory setting?
2) Can variables be changed, yet still result in like observations?
3) Is the phenomena truly natural or was it the result of a man-made force
enacting upon it?
