Inorganometallic Chemistry (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1992)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1992, 19 June 2013

Inorganometallic Chemistry (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1992)
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Part of Series
Modern Inorganic Chemistry
Print Length
401 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
19 Jun 2013
ISBN-10
1489924612
ISBN-13
9781489924612

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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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Book Edition:
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1992
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
19 June 2013
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.16 cm
ISBN-10:
1489924612
ISBN-13:
9781489924612
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
401
Publisher:
Springer
Weight:
580.6 gm

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