The nouns "element" and "radical" are prominent words in the chemist's vocabulary. That their meanings nowadays are radically different is a fact that is elementary to all, yet, given their prominence, it is striking that a millennium ago they were virtually synonyms. By the late 18th century, Lavoisier and his colleagues had assigned them different denotations. The article describes the synonyms divergent histories through the first decades of the 19th century.
Publisher
Division of the History of Chemistry
ISSN
1053-4385
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
Permalink
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127665
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2006v031p081
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Copyright 2006 Division of the History of Chemistry
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