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Introducing UV–visible spectroscopy at high school level following the historical evolution of spectroscopic instruments: a proposal for chemistry teachers Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Maria Antonietta Carpentieri, Valentina Domenici
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Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Michèle Friend
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What is a mathematician doing…in a chemistry class? Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-04
Abstract The way of thinking of mathematicians and chemists in their respective disciplines seems to have very different levels of abstractions. While the firsts are involved in the most abstract of all sciences, the seconds are engaged in a practical, mainly experimental discipline. Therefore, it is surprising that many luminaries of the mathematics universe have studied chemistry as their main subject
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Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-19
Abstract Slater’s method is an integral part of the undergraduate experience. In actuality, Slater’s method is part of an atomic model and not simply a set of rules. Slater’s rules are a simple means for computing the effective nuclear charge experienced by an orbital. These rules are based on the shell-like structure of the Slater atom in which outer shell electrons are incapable of shielding inner
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Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Monte Cairns
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Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 K. Brad Wray
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Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Curt Wentrup
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Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Alessio Rocci
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Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of Acidity -Protonism vs. Electronism Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Klaus Ruthenberg
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Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept? Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Gerd-Uwe Flechsig
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“Sharp of taste”: the concept of acidity in the Greek system of natural explanation Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Apostolos K. Gerontas
Acidic substances were known for thousands of years, and their macroscopic-sensory characteristics were reflected by words in most ancient languages. In the Western canon, the history of the concept of acidity goes back to Ancient Greece. In Greek, the word associated with acidity from its early literary references was ὀξύς (“sharp”), and still in contemporary Greek the words “sour” and “acidic” have
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Bond order and bond energies Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Peter F. Lang
This work describes the concept of bond order. It shows that covalent bond energy is correlated to bond order. Simple expressions which included bond order are introduced to calculate bond energies of homo-nuclear and hetero-nuclear bonds. Calculated values of bond energies are compared with literature values and show there is very good agreement between and calculated and experimental values in the
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Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity view Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Mauricio Suárez, Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez
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Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez
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A defense of placeholder essentialism Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Safia Bano
Kripke-Putnam argument for natural kind essentialism can be said to depend on placeholder essentialist intuitions. But some argue that such philosophical intuitions are merely preschooler cognitive biases which are not supported by scientific knowledge of natural kinds. Chemical substances, for instance, whether elements or compounds do not have such privileged set of underlying properties (‘same substance’
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Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Ryan Miller
The debate between ontological reductionists and emergentists in chemistry has revolved around quantum mechanics. What Franklin and Seifert (BJPS 2020) add to the long-running dispute is an attention to the measurement problem. They contend that all three realist interpretations of the quantum formalism capable of resolving the measurement problem also obviate any need for chemical emergence. I push
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Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Rr. Lis Permana Sari, Heru Pratomo, Isti Yunita, Sukisman Purtadi, Mahesh Narayan, Kristian Handoyo Sugiyarto
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An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Marcin Krasnodębski
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Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad Wray, published in foundations of chemistry October 6, 2022 Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Gareth R. Eaton
Dr. K. Wray (2022) questioned my suggestion that T. W. Richards should be included as one of the scientists who contributed to the discovery of isotopes. This article provides additional support for inclusion of Richards as a contributor to the discovery.
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Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Yachun Xu, Yichen Tong, Jiangyang Yuan
Based upon the demarcation between Elementalism and Atomism Chemistry from the perspective of the long-term history of chemistry, the authors re-examine the Berthollet-Proust controversy on the three types of chemical compounds, pointing out that Berthollet proposed the law of indefinite proportions by deduction, while Proust proposed the law of definite proportions by induction. The controversy is
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On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Francesco Di Giacomo
Examples are given of applications by Pauling, Mulliken, Marcus and G.E.Kimball of the three Pythagorian means to formulate the scales of electronegativity of the elements, to the calculations of rate constants of electron transfer cross-reactions, to the calculation of the observed rate constant as function of activation and diffusion rate constants in the case of mixed reaction-diffusion rates and
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Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Jeffrey I. Seeman
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Why do prima facie intuitive theories work in organic chemistry? Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Hirofumi Ochiai
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Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Gareth R. Eaton
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The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz
In 1869, two distinguished scientists, Dimitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer, discovered a certain periodicity among the chemical characteristics of the then known elements. Both developed first versions of the periodic table, independently. In the wake of the 150th anniversary, UNESCO proclaimed 2019 the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements”. Two lucid and detailed studies on
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On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Dean J. Tantillo, Jeffrey I. Seeman
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Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Fiorela Alassia
According to process ontology in the philosophy of biology, the living world is better understood as processes rather than as substantial individuals. Within this perspective, an organism does not consist of a hierarchy of structures like a machine, but rather a dynamic hierarchy of processes, dynamically maintained and stabilized at different time scales. With this respect, two processual approaches
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Correction to: Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Paweł Miśkowiec
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Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Clevis Headley
Many philosophers attribute extraordinary importance to the idea of natural kinds seemingly intimating that the very possibility of certain kinds of activity are ontologically beholden to the existence of kinds. Specifically, regarding chemistry, Brian Ellis intimated that the success of any plausible metaphysical essentialism depends upon its “reliance on examples from chemistry.” Ellis’s view is
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Predicting unknown binary compounds from the view of complex network Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Guoyong Mao, Runzhan Liu, Ning Zhang
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Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Paweł Miśkowiec
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Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Jordi Cat, Nicholas W. Best
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A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Eric R. Scerri
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Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Paweł Miśkowiec
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Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Paweł Miśkowiec
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Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 Balakrishnan Viswanathan, M. Shajahan Gulam Razul
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Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 K. Brad Wray
I challenge Gareth Eaton’s recent claim that Theodore Richards should be counted among the discoverers of isotopes. In evaluating Eaton’s claim, I draw on two influential theories of scientific discovery, one developed by Thomas Kuhn, and one developed by Augustine Brannigan. I argue that though Richards’ experimental work contributed to the discovery, his work does not warrant attributing the discovery
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A case for the engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Jay A. Labinger’s: Connecting Literature and Science. New York: Routledge, 2022 Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Jeffrey I. Seeman
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Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Naum S. Imyanitov
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A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Fiorela Alassia
According to process ontology in the philosophy of biology, the living world is better understood as processes rather than as substantial individuals. Within this perspective, an organism does not consist of a hierarchy of structures like a machine, but rather a dynamic hierarchy of processes, dynamically maintained and stabilized at different time scales. With this respect, two processual approaches
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Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Martín Pérgola, Lydia Galagovsky
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Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Praveen Kumar Sharma
In present day’s sustainable agriculture is relatively a new area which required more attention by scientist/researchers and this one treated as basic need of human survival. In past decades, sustainable agriculture meets environmental and economic goals simultaneously, that’s why this field has received widespread interest. Green Chemistry is described as the ‘‘design of chemical products and processes
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Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Savino Longo
In this work we elaborate on the idea of a formal theory for a limited but important part of structural chemistry, that described by Lewis’ methods and VSEPR (Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion). For this purpose, recursive functions and propositional functions are defined, that apply to formal expressions of the structure, based on a finite set of symbols. This approach allows for the expression
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The case of Zinjafr in the medical and mineralogical texts of medieval Persia: a puzzle created in the absence of the concept of chemical elements Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Nazila Farmani Anooshe, Aliyar Mousavi
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Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction? Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Alfio Zambon
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Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Hirofumi Ochiai
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Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical properties Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
This paper establishes that Robert Boyle’s complex chemical ontology implies a non-reductionistic conception of chemical qualities and, more specifically, a conception of chemical qualities as being dispositional and relational. Though Peter Anstey has already shown that that Boyle considered sensible qualities to be dispositional and relational, this moves beyond Anstey’s work by extending his arguments
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On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Jesus Alberto Jaimes Arriaga
An Aristotelian philosophy of nature offers an alternative to reduction for the conception of the inter-theoretical relationships between molecular chemistry and quantum mechanics. A basic ingredient for such an approach is an ontology of fundamental causal powers, and this work aims to develop such an ontology by drawing on quantum-chemical entities, particularly, the electron density. This notion
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Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Smriti Sharma
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Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 JudithAnn R. Hartman, Eric A. Nelson, Paul A. Kirschner
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Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, + 3 and anions − 1. Quantitative characteristics for manifestations of internal periodicity and kainosymmetry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Naum S. Imyanitov
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Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Alan Goodwin
This paper was inspired by the author’s fortunate acquisition of a copy of an original copy of “Muspratt’s Chemistry” that was published in 1860. This raised, for the author, interesting and significant issues regarding the chemistry content and its presentation in the context of chemistry and education today. The paper is presented in two parts: Part 1 explores the content, structure and gives reactions
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Special theory of relativity in chemistry Found. Chem. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Nenad Raos
Application of Einstein special theory of relativity in chemistry seems to be superfluous; energies are too low. The average velocity of electron in hydrogen atom (1 s 1) is 1/135 c, making its actual mass only 26,6 ppm bigger than the rest mass. However, for heavier elements (about Z > 60) relativistic effects have to be taken into account and, more, many phenomena cannot be explained without ascribing