Additional support came in 1885 when eka-silicon, which had also been described in advance by Mendeleyev, was discovered and named germanium.
1885年，当门捷列夫描述过的埃卡-硅被发现并命名为锗时，也带来了额外的支持。
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Mendeleyev was bolder than Meyer and even assumed that if a measured atomic mass put an element in the wrong place in the table, the atomic mass was wrong.