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Inorganometallic Chemistry

Inorganometallic Chemistry

Fehlner, Thomas P.

Hardcover

Series: Modern Inorganic Chemistry

ChemistryGeneral SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 0306439867
ISBN13: 9780306439865
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 30 1992
Pages: 401
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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