In remembrance of outstanding Russian scientist Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, who discovered the periodic law of properties in the system of chemical elements
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Principles of the world origin and structure in relation to the Mendeleev’s periodic law are presented in this paper. Our Universe consisting of hydrogen (88.6%), helium (11.3%), and other chemical elements (0.1%) has created very favorable conditions for life on the Earth, including the much-needed water—a unique substance with all its anomalies. Special attention is given to hydrogen, the first element of the periodic table, from which the formation of our solar system began. Moreover, hydrogen is a basic building material for all the other elements. It is shown that a fundamentally important fact implies that all the worlds consist of the same chemical elements of the periodic table; today the total number of the known elements in this table amounts to 118, including the artificially produced ones. There are no new elements in the Universe. And herein lies the genius of Mendeleev as the author of the periodic law and the whole grandeur of the law of understanding the world, in which the humanity lives, making it possible to predict the existence of new planets and the existence of unknown chemical elements in the periodic table that were not discovered earlier. The second unique substance on planet Earth is water, because it can simultaneously exist in three phase states: liquid, solid and gaseous with a multitude of various physical, biological and other anomalies violating the generally accepted laws of nature, but owing to which life exists on our planet. Indeed, it is just the entropy changes of the process that make a decisive contribution to all energy characteristics of transformation of some substances into others. The essence of all chemical processes occurring on earth in accordance with the laws of non-equilibrium thermodynamics consists in an infinite sequence of self-organization processes. Due to these laws, new types of structures can spontaneously arise that are characterized by a transition from chaos and disorder to the order and strict organization. Despite an enormous progress in the study of the Universe, its structure remains to be no less mysterious. It remains to find scientific evidence that there is a Supreme Being that generates the intellect inherent only to Human Being.
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Khimiya i Tekhnologiya Vody, 2019, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 571–580.
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Goncharuk, V.V., Goncharuk, D.K. Water is Everywhere. It Holds Everything, Even a Key to Understanding the Universe. D. I. Mendeleev’s Law is the Prototype of the Universe Constitution. J. Water Chem. Technol. 41, 341–346 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1063455X19060018
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1063455X19060018