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Inorganometallic Chemistry [electronic resource] /
There is a certain fascination associated with words. The manipulation of strings of symbols according to mutually accepted rules allows a language to express history as well as to formulate challenges for the future. But language changes as old words are used in a new context and new words are created to describe changing situations. How many words has the computer revolution alone added to languages? "Inorganometallic" is a word you probably have never encountered before. It is one created from old words to express a new presence. A strange sounding word, it is also a term fraught with internal contradiction caused by the accepted meanings of its constituent parts. "In organic" is the name of a discipline of chemistry while "metallic" refers to a set of elements constituting a subsection of that discipline. Why then this Carrollian approach to entitling a set of serious academic papers? Organic, the acknowledged doyenne of chemistry, is distinguished from her brother, inorganic, by the prefix "in," i. e. , he gets everything not organic. Organometallic refers to compounds with carbon-metal bonds. It is simple! Inorganometallic is everything else, i. e. , compounds with noncarbon-metal element bonds. But why a new term? Is not inorganic sufficient? By virtue of training, limited time, resources, co-workers, and so on, chemists tend to work on a specific element class, on a particular compound type, or in a particular phase. Thus, one finds element-oriented chemists (e. g.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
1992
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| Subjects: | Physics., Condensed matter., Solid state physics., Crystallography., Spectroscopy., Microscopy., Materials science., Solid State Physics., Spectroscopy and Microscopy., Condensed Matter Physics., Characterization and Evaluation of Materials., |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2459-9 |
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