He also determined chemically the ideal proportion of alcohol in vodka.
The leader of this man's country sanctioned his bigamy, saying he "has two wives, yes, but I have only one" of him. He invented an explosive for the navy, developed some laws of thermal expan- sion, and tried to determine the material composition of the luminiferous aether. His later work focused on agriculture, the petroleum industry, and economics, reflecting his general goal to bring order to the world. He also determined chemically the ideal proportion of alcohol in vodka. In his most enduring work, he referred to eka-aluminum, which successfully anticipated many properties of gallium. Name this Russian chemist who predicted lots of other elements, too, but left out the noble gases from his first peri- odic table.
The leader of this man's country sanctioned his bigamy, saying he "has two wives, yes, but I have only one" of him.
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev