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Inorganometallic Chemistry (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
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Inorganometallic Chemistry (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: Modern Inorganic Chemistry
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There is a certain fascination associated with words. The
manipulation of strings of symbols according to mutually accepted
rules allows a language to express history as well as to formulate
challenges for the future. But language changes as old words are
used in a new context and new words are created to describe
changing situations. How many words has the computer revolution
alone added to languages? "Inorganometallic" is a word you probably
have never encountered before. It is one created from old words to
express a new presence. A strange sounding word, it is also a term
fraught with internal contradiction caused by the accepted meanings
of its constituent parts. "In organic" is the name of a discipline
of chemistry while "metallic" refers to a set of elements
constituting a subsection of that discipline. Why then this
Carrollian approach to entitling a set of serious academic papers?
Organic, the acknowledged doyenne of chemistry, is distinguished
from her brother, inorganic, by the prefix "in," i. e. , he gets
everything not organic. Organometallic refers to compounds with
carbon-metal bonds. It is simple! Inorganometallic is everything
else, i. e. , compounds with noncarbon-metal element bonds. But why
a new term? Is not inorganic sufficient? By virtue of training,
limited time, resources, co-workers, and so on, chemists tend to
work on a specific element class, on a particular compound type, or
in a particular phase. Thus, one finds element-oriented chemists
(e. g.
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