Skeptical Chymist, The

From the birthday of the modem chemistry, i.e., since Boyle had used for the first time a coherent atomic theory in science in his 1661 famous book The Skeptical Chymist, the fundamental principles and concepts of matter stmcture were constantly shared by the physics and chemistry. However, the divorce of chemistry from physics would have to come with many occasions by means of classical chemical concepts, e g., valence, chemical bond, and electronegativity. The mystery by which the atoms are kept together and still preserving their intimate properties was searched by great minds, from Newton to Lewis, being the key furnished only with the advent of quantum theory. Within this new paradigm of matter there is the feeling that the physics and chemistry are united under the actual common... 

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See also in sourсe #XX -- [ ]

See also in sourсe #XX -- [ ]

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