The document provides an introduction to the periodic table. It explains that Dmitri Mendeleev discovered the periodic table and created it as a way to organize all the known chemical elements. The periodic table is organized with elements in vertical columns based on their properties and horizontal rows based on the number of outer electrons. Examples of three elements, fluorine, krypton, and rubidium are then described, including their atomic number, symbol, mass, discoverer, families, and some uses.