History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 13 (2/29/00)

 

Topics   Atoms and molecules:  Lavoisier to chemical structure  Dalton's theory of matter       Regularities in chemical composition       Atomic weights and their complications       Prout's hypothesis       Daltonian notation  Berzelius's adaptations       Berzelian notation       Chemical forces as electrical forces  A theory of structure       Isomerism and organic chemistry       Kekulé's sausages       Spatial distribution

Names and terms   John Dalton (1766-1844)  law of definite proportions  Claude Louis Berthollet  William Prout  Amedeo Avogadro  Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848)  Humphry Davy  electronegative, electropositive  Friedrich August Kekulé (1829-1896)  benzene

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