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INORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
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| By: |
Thomas P. Fehlner (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1489924612 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781489924612 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
| Pub. date: |
19 June, 2013 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 |
| Series: |
Modern Inorganic Chemistry |
| Pages: |
401 |
| Synopsis: |
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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XIV, 401 p. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
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Returnable |
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