The present writer has briefly discussed the history of this law, in NATURE, vol. 1. 1894, p. 149. In two unappreciative lines in a footnote to the “Elements of Chemical Philosophy,” published in 1812 ...
Dalton’s Atomic Theory: British physicist, chemist, and meteorologist John Dalton proposed Dalton’s atomic theory in the year 1808. This was the first theory that studied the matter in the form of ...
For the first time in history, a change will be made to the atomic weights of some elements listed on the periodic table of the chemical elements posted on walls of chemistry classrooms and on the ...
THE origin of the former of these two books is well explained in the following passage from the short introduction: A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory: a Contribution to Chemical ...
Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...
In what's being hailed as an important first for chemistry, an international team of scientists has developed a new technology that can selectively rearrange atomic bonds within a single molecule. The ...
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a way to investigate the surface features of some materials. It works by “feeling” or “touching” the surface with an extremely small probe. This provides a ...