The Discovery of Waters True Nature

Early Greek philosophers also believed that matter was composed of tiny, indivisible particles that they called atoms, from a Greek word that means indivisible. Aristotle, one of antiquity s most influential philosophers in areas of natural science, discounted the existence of atoms and asserted that matter, in principle at least, can be divided over and over again indefinitely. 

This understanding placed chemistry on a much more solid footing as a true science. 

Much of this advancement can be attributed to chemists understanding of water and the recognition of the many properties of water we have just discussed (although the discovery of hydrogen bonding did not occur until the first half of the twentieth century). 

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