A very early suggestion made by Elliot Adams in 1911, and based on the arrangement of elements in each horizontal periodic table row, was that elements of atomic weight greater than circa 256 (which would equate to between elements 99 and 100 in modern-day terms) did not exist.
Unha teoría temperá proposta por Elliot Adams en 1911 e baseada na disposición dos elementos en cada unha das filas horizontais da táboa periódica indicaba que os elementos de peso atómico maior de 256± (ós elementos 99 ou 100) non existirían.