Write true or false for the statement: In order to fit elements into his table,Newlands adjusted three elements in the same slot,but also put some unlike elements in the same slot.

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(B) The statement is False. In Newlands' Law of Octaves,he adjusted two elements in the same slot (e.g.,cobalt and nickel) to fit elements into his table,but he did not put three elements in the same slot. Furthermore,he did place some unlike elements in the same slot,but the claim regarding 'three elements' is incorrect.

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