‘Lavoisier and Mendeleev on the elements’
(2005)
Journal Article
Hendry, R. (2005). ‘Lavoisier and Mendeleev on the elements’. Foundations of Chemistry, 7(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1023/b%3Afoch.0000042886.65679.4e
Lavoisier defined an element as a chemical substance that cannot be decomposed using current analytical methods. Mendeleev saw an element as a substance composed of atoms of the same atomic weight. These `definitions' do quite different things: Lavoi... Read More about ‘Lavoisier and Mendeleev on the elements’.