Leopold Pfaundler and the origins of the kinetic theory of chemical reactions

Jensen, William B.

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Leopold Pfaundler and the origins of the kinetic theory of chemical reactions

Author(s)

Jensen, William B.

Contributor(s)

Kuhlmann, Julia

Issue Date

2012-03-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Review kinetic theory chem reaction document history

Abstract

A review. Both the historical development of the kinetic theory of matter and the mech. theory of heat have been extensively studied by the American historian, Stephen G. Brush, and are the subject of several detailed monographs. In addn., Brush has also provided collections and translations of most of the key foundational documents. However, as with the case of available collections and translations of papers related to the foundations of thermodn., these collections are missing the first examples of the application of these fundamental concepts to the phenomena of chem. reactions and equil. In the case of thermodn., this missing document was August Horstmann's 1873 seminal paper, 'Theorie der Dissocn.' (The Theory of Dissocn.), which has only recently been made available in English translation. In the case of the kinetic theory of matter and heat, this missing document is Leopold Pfaundler's 1867 paper 'Beitrage zur chemische Statik' (A Contribution to Chem. Statics), an English translation of which appeared in the previous issue of the Bulletin for the History of Chem.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2012v037p029

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