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Identify the elements eka-aluminium and eka-silicon. What wa the reason for such naming?

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Ga and Ge. The elements were so named by mendeleev because he predicted that the properties of eka-aluminium and eka-silicon will be similar to that of aluminium and silicon respectively.
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