This study focuses on the French chemists of 1830-1858, and their roles in the development of organic chemistry and its eventual connectin with atomic and valence-bond theory, and uncovers new complexities in the thought processes that led to the concept of valence. The exploration of Laurent's early career reveals that this French chemist had proposed a hyposthesis to explain phenomena due to valence fifteen years before August Kekulé's Exposition of the classic valence-bond theory in 1858. Laurent put forward a hypothesis supposing the dividibility of atoms at a time when such a theory was far removed from the possiblity of experimentation. Within the positivist philosophy which prevailed at the time, few besides him would have dared to advance such a hypothesis. Laurent's hypothesis influenced certain advances in his chemistry, and that of his close associate, Charles Gerhardt, and eventually these advances helped turn most chemists to atomism.
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The chain of conceptual events that we are about to follow originated in Paris in the turbulent socioeconomic milieu of the 1830s and 1840s when France was making its tortuous passage into a fully modern industrial society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acides organiques anhydres, des combinaisons organiques, recherches diverses, les silicates, volume atomique, additive formulae, electrochemical dualism, divisible atoms, multivalent elements, substitution phenomena, mixed radicals, binary molecules, multiple equivalents, alcohol radicals, substitution equivalence, chimie organique, monobasic acids, chemical atom, conventional equivalent, des radicaux, nouvelle classe, chim phys, minute atoms, multiple proportions, chin phys Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Auguste Laurent, Charles Gerhardt, New York, Adolphe Wurtz, William Odling, Alexander Williamson, Chemical Society, Albert Ladenburg, Jean Jacques, Hermann Kolbe, Marc Tiffeneau, Academy of Sciences, Auguste Cahours, Berzelius Bref, Great Britain, Reinhold Hoffmann, Alexander William Williamson, Amand Bineau, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Gustave Chancel, University of Chicago Press, University of Strasbourg, William Gregory New!
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The chain of conceptual events that we are about to follow originated in Paris in the turbulent socioeconomic milieu of the 1830s and 1840s when France was making its tortuous passage into a fully modern industrial society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acides organiques anhydres, des combinaisons organiques, recherches diverses, les silicates, volume atomique, additive formulae, electrochemical dualism, divisible atoms, multivalent elements, substitution phenomena, mixed radicals, binary molecules, multiple equivalents, alcohol radicals, substitution equivalence, chimie organique, monobasic acids, chemical atom, conventional equivalent, des radicaux, nouvelle classe, chim phys, minute atoms, multiple proportions, chin phys Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Auguste Laurent, Charles Gerhardt, New York, Adolphe Wurtz, William Odling, Alexander Williamson, Chemical Society, Albert Ladenburg, Jean Jacques, Hermann Kolbe, Marc Tiffeneau, Academy of Sciences, Auguste Cahours, Berzelius Bref, Great Britain, Reinhold Hoffmann, Alexander William Williamson, Amand Bineau, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Gustave Chancel, University of Chicago Press, University of Strasbourg, William Gregory New!
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