Dmitri Mendeleev, “Principles of Chemistry”, 1868 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Antoine Lavoisier, “The Elements of Chemistry”, 1789, PART TWO (II) was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Antoine Lavoisier, “The Elements of Chemistry”, 1789, PART THREE (III).
Antoine Lavoisier was the founder of the modern language of chemistry. The system of nomenclature of chemistry was put for by Lavoisier.
However, most laypersons reading the Lavoisier “The Elements of Chemistry” miss the “group formulation” implicit in the text. Dmitri Mendeleev as a professional chemist did not overlook the implied “group formulation”; but, instead Mendeleev made the “group formulation” the cornerstone of his textbook.
Here I presented: Antoine Lavoisier, “The Elements of Chemistry”, 1789, PART THREE (III).
SUMMARY.
Antoine Lavoisier knew of twenty-three (23) chemical elements. The concept of group formulas is implicit in the reading of the text of Antoine Lavoisier.
The groups formulated by Dmitri Mendeleev are implicit in Antoine Lavoisier’s conception. The table ABOVE shows the Lavoisier elements in this type of periodic table.
GROUP FORMULAS.
Group I. – / R2O.
Group II. – / RO.
Group III. – / R2O3.
Group IV. RH4 / RO2.
Group V. RH3 / R2O5.
Group VI. RH2 / RO3.
Group VII. RH / R2O7.
Group VIII. – / RO4.
The genius of 1789 Lavoisier that 1866 Mendeleev recognized was reduction (H, hydrogen) and oxidation (O, oxygen) of elements
Antoine Lavoisier, using the Robert Boyle definition for elements as parts of molecules.
Molecular element is the concept that put an end to Aristotle alchemy, and Antoine Lavoisier followed Robert Boyle in rejecting Aristotle alchemy.
COMMENTS
The reduction (H, hydrogen) and oxidation (O, oxygen) of elements was definitive proof of the Robert Boyle term “molecular element”. The physical definition is what Antoine Lavoisier proved, as opposed to the philosophical definition of the past alchemist.
Martin Levy, ‘Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Mesopotamia’, 1959 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Robert Boyle, “The Sceptical Chymist”, 1661 also was the topic of an earlier blog post.
