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Ideas of Weisberg/Needham/Hendry, by Text

[, fl. 2011, ]

2011	Philosophy of Chemistry

1.2

p.6

17465

Lavoisier's elements included four types of earth

1.3

p.8

17466

Mendeleev systematised the elements, and also gave an account of their nature

1.4

p.10

17467

Isotopes (such as those of hydrogen) can vary in their rates of chemical reaction

4.3

p.25

17468

Over 100,000,000 compounds have been discovered or synthesised

4.5

p.28

17469

'H2O' just gives the element proportions, not the microstructure

4.5

p.29

17470

Water molecules dissociate, and form large polymers, explaining its properties

5.1

p.29

17471

Using mechanisms as explanatory schemes began in chemistry

5.1

p.30

17472

Thick mechanisms map whole reactions, and thin mechanism chart the steps

6

p.33

17473

It is unlikely that chemistry will ever be reduced to physics

6.1

p.35

17474

Quantum theory won't tell us which structure a set of atoms will form

6.2

p.35

17475

For temperature to be mean kinetic energy, a state of equilibrium is also required