Limitations of Newlands’ Law of Octaves:
- Newlands Octave law applies only to the elements till Calcium.
- Newland estimates that there are a total of 56 elements in nature and that there are no more objects to be found in the future.
- To put things on the Newland table, put two items in one slot. Newland presented different items and various structures in one column.
- The element Iron (Fe) is kept away from elements having closely related properties such as Nickel and cobalt.