单词 | statical chemistry |
释义 | > as lemmasstatical chemistry statical chemistry n. [after French statique chimique ( C.-L. Berthollet Essai de statique chimique (1803)); compare chemical statics n. at statics n. 1b] now historical the part of chemistry dealing primarily with the composition of substances rather than with their reactions. ΚΠ 1809 Repertory Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 14 184 I have since had the satisfaction to observe, that M. Berthollett has adopted my opinion in his Statical Chemistry. 1827 H. Davy Six Disc. vii. 126 Statical chemistry, as it was taught in 1799, was obscure, vague, and indefinite, not meriting even the name of a science. 1904 G. D. Hinrichs Proximate Constituents Chem. Elements 76 The prominent professors of chemistry are hardly even in statical chemistry, but in rather a sort of statical atomism. 1977 Isis 68 463/2 Dulong..abandoned the caloric theory of gases and Berthollet's statical chemistry in favour of an electrochemical theory of chemical heats and Dalton's atomism. < as lemmas |
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