So basically, at the time he was just going on size and then traits, but what we actually know today is that we can also order things in the periodic table by electron configuration.

基本上，在当时他只能通过大小,和特性来进行，但是现在我们已经知道了,我们还可以通过电子排布来对它们进行排序。

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