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A Non-Traditional Guide to Physical ChemistryBetween Chemistry and Physics

A Non-Traditional Guide to Physical Chemistry: Between Chemistry and Physics [All that was assumed, argued about and comprehended by the chemists of the nineteenth century has become settled as secondary school curriculum by now. As we reach fifteen years of age all of us would know what the difference is between mixture and compound, what the meaning is of a chemical formula, or of atomic mass. People are familiar with these notions which have been household words for a long time. No one has ever met a person who had but the faintest doubt of their meaning or truth. Thus, it is understandable that their origin, the way in which this part of knowledge was accrued, went into oblivion. Usually we quote the laws of definite proportions and multiple proportions (that is, the weight proportions of the constituent atoms in a compound) as the bases of classical chemical thinking. These have rested on the simple, quantitative observations of chemists who dealt with material synthesis and analysis, who accepted the conservation of matter as a basic law and whose most important, sometimes only instrument was the balance.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Non-Traditional Guide to Physical ChemistryBetween Chemistry and Physics

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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. With Hungarian-language products: “Hidrogén, az elemek királya: A kémia születése, az energetika jövője by Robert Schiller, Typotex Publishing, London, 2013” . Translation from the Hungarian language edition: “Hidrogén, az elemek királya: A kémia születése, az energetika jövője” by Robert Schiller, © Typotex Publishing 2013. Published by Typotex Publishing. All Rights Reserved.
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[All that was assumed, argued about and comprehended by the chemists of the nineteenth century has become settled as secondary school curriculum by now. As we reach fifteen years of age all of us would know what the difference is between mixture and compound, what the meaning is of a chemical formula, or of atomic mass. People are familiar with these notions which have been household words for a long time. No one has ever met a person who had but the faintest doubt of their meaning or truth. Thus, it is understandable that their origin, the way in which this part of knowledge was accrued, went into oblivion. Usually we quote the laws of definite proportions and multiple proportions (that is, the weight proportions of the constituent atoms in a compound) as the bases of classical chemical thinking. These have rested on the simple, quantitative observations of chemists who dealt with material synthesis and analysis, who accepted the conservation of matter as a basic law and whose most important, sometimes only instrument was the balance.]

Published: Aug 18, 2022

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