The Discovery of Potassium and Sodium, and the Problem of the Chemical Elements
@article{Siegfried1963TheDO, title={The Discovery of Potassium and Sodium, and the Problem of the Chemical Elements}, author={Robert Siegfried}, journal={Isis}, year={1963}, volume={54}, pages={247 - 258} }
THE publication of Lavoisier's Traite Elementaire de Chimie in 1789 marks a convenient date for the beginning of the modern era of chemistry.1 Lavoisier began this work as an elaboration of an earlier expressed need for a new chemical nomenclature, but in the writing discovered " the impossibility of isolating the Nomenclature from the science and the science from the Nomenclature." 2 Meanwhile the systematic Methode de Nomenclature Chimique 3 had appeared in 1787, and its principles were…
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