My MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Mid2010 allows 16 GB of RAM? Why Apple says maximum 8 GB?

According to this StackExchange and Mactracker app, my computer can support 16 GB of RAM. If so, why Apple says a maximum of 8 GB? You have a computer of mid-2010, like mine set at level to 16 GB using the latest Mac OS?

My problem is that the two chips of RAM 8 GB I got from Newegg does not 'click' when I tried inserting them (unlike the instructions), and trying to start I got a beep with standby-led which repeats after a few seconds, showing apparently no RAM installed.

It seems to me that either I don't push it far enough (not likely because I don't think that it could be pushed further in all), the chips do not work (I tried my best to often touch the metal parts to avoid electrostatic discharge and avoid touching anything other than the sides with semicircular notches) , or the computer is not grateful.

Is it important that the sticker on the Newegg RAM and the sticker on my RAM from Apple factory-installed are on opposite sides? The brand matter? Should I worry that there seems to be some kind of residue (as you can see when a sticker is removed) on a small part of the bottom-left of 'block' on the underside of each Newegg RAM chip? (This residue, as well as the sticker on the opposite side, I wonder if a sticker has been removed by a new, was placed on it, as if it is being sold as new RAM.) Is significant to the final number, '1066 MHz 151031', ' 1066 MHz 150930' on the Newegg RAM "Warranty void if removed" sticker, or to the plant (or seller) identify the chip?

I enclose photographs showing the residue on the back of the Newegg RAM.

Do you think that this residue is responsible for the MacBook Pro of declaration that there is no RAM installed? Is - this evidence is that the seller has removed a sticker?

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