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What Is A Chemical Element? - A Collection of Essays by Chemists, Philosophers, Historians, and Educators (Hardcover)
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What Is A Chemical Element? - A Collection of Essays by Chemists, Philosophers, Historians, and Educators (Hardcover)
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The concept of a chemical element is foundational within the field
of chemistry, but there is wide disagreement over its definition.
Even the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
claims two distinct definitions: a species of atoms versus one
which identifies chemical elements with the simple substances
bearing their names. The double definition of elements proposed by
the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry contrasts an
abstract meaning and an operational one. Nevertheless, the
philosophical aspects of this notion are not fully captured by the
IUPAC definitions, despite the fact that they were crucial for the
construction of the Periodic Table. Although rich scientific
literature on the element and the periodic table exists as well as
a recent growth in the philosophy of chemistry, scholars are still
searching for a definitive answer to this important question: What
is an element? Eric Scerri and Elena Ghibaudi have teamed up to
assemble a group of scholars to provide readers an overview of the
current state of the debate on chemical elements from
epistemological, historical, and educational perspectives. What Is
A Chemical Element? fills a gap for the benefit of the whole
chemistry community-experimental researchers, philosophers,
chemistry educators, and anyone looking to learn more about the
elements of the periodic table.
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