Cutting-edge Chemistry: Some 19th - Century Russian Contributions. a Commentary
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This presentation follows the “classic” paper of Bensaude-Vincent (1) rather closely, but with some additional points and emendations to her argument. One of the first points Kaji makes—that Mendeleev was ambivalent about the status of the atomic theory—can be related to what Bensaude-Vincent delineates as the “strict positivist tradition” to which he belonged. Kaji, however, give this philosophical context concrete scientific grounding in his reference to Mendeleev’s interest in so-called “indefinite compounds” (solutions, alloys, silicates, etc.).
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