Objects Of Chemical Inquiry

Synopsis

Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. 1 Unveiling Glass's Mysteries -- Lavoisier, Loysel And The First Chemical Treatise On Glass (1765 -- 1799) / Marco Beretta -- Ch. 2 Klaproth's Discovery Of Uranium / Ursula Klein -- Ch. 3 Vinegar And Oil -- Materials And Representation In Organic Chemistry / Alan J. Rocke -- Ch. 4 The Curious Case Of Coniine -- Constructive Synthesis And Aromatic Structure Theory / Catherine M. Jackson -- Ch. 5 Alfred Nobel, Creative Bricoleur Who Invented A Smokeless Military Powder (ballistite) / Seymour H. Mauskopf -- Ch. 6 Partial Valence, Residual Affinity, And Early Stereochemistry / Peter J. Ramberg -- Ch. 7 Representing The Experimental Atom / Charlotte Bigg -- Ch. 8 Reactivity And Its Contexts / Stephen J. Weininger -- Ch. 9 Reaction Intermediates And Transition States -- States Of Matter Or States Of Mind? / Mary Jo Nye -- Ch. 10 The Synergy Of New Methods And Old Concepts In Modern Chemistry / Thomas Steinhauser -- Ch. 11 Modeling The Scale Of Atoms And Bonds: The Origins Of Space-filling Parameters / Jeremiah James -- Ch. 12 The Olfactory Object -- Toward A History Of Smell In The 20th Century / Carsten Reinhardt -- Ch. 13 From Enzymes To Molecular Machines -- Materiality In Research On Rhodopsins, 1970s / Mathias Grote. Edited By Ursula Klein And Carsten Reinhardt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.