Choose the given statement as True/False:

Periodicity was properly explained by Mendeleev's periodic table.

The above statement is False.

There is no proper explanation for the properties of the elements that get repeated after gaps in a particular group which means the elements were not properly sequenced according to periodicity which is one of the drawbacks of Mendeleev's periodic table.

The correct statement would be, Periodicity was not properly explained by Mendeleev's periodic table.