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    This document summarizes two major historical periods in the development of chemistry and physics: 1) Ancient Greek philosophy regarding the fundamental nature of matter, with thinkers like Thales, Empedocles, and Democritus proposing early atomic and elemental theories; and 2) The emergence of alchemy and its evolution into modern chemistry through scientists like Aristotle, Paracelsus, Boyle, Lavoisier, and Proust who developed concepts like elements, compounds, and the law of definite proportions. It also briefly discusses early experiments and discoveries regarding subatomic particles by scientists in the 19th-20th centuries.

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    This document summarizes two major historical periods in the development of chemistry and physics: 1) Ancient Greek philosophy regarding the fundamental nature of matter, with thinkers like Thales, Empedocles, and Democritus proposing early atomic and elemental theories; and 2) The emergence of alchemy and its evolution into modern chemistry through scientists like Aristotle, Paracelsus, Boyle, Lavoisier, and Proust who developed concepts like elements, compounds, and the law of definite proportions. It also briefly discusses early experiments and discoveries regarding subatomic particles by scientists in the 19th-20th centuries.

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    This document summarizes two major historical periods in the development of chemistry and physics: 1) Ancient Greek philosophy regarding the fundamental nature of matter, with thinkers like Thales, Empedocles, and Democritus proposing early atomic and elemental theories; and 2) The emergence of alchemy and its evolution into modern chemistry through scientists like Aristotle, Paracelsus, Boyle, Lavoisier, and Proust who developed concepts like elements, compounds, and the law of definite proportions. It also briefly discusses early experiments and discoveries regarding subatomic particles by scientists in the 19th-20th centuries.

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    2 Major historical periods:

    Development of Ancient
    Greek Philosophy

     Emergence of Alchemy
    Thales Miletus
     “ What is matter
    composed of”
     thought of water as the

    ultimate substance that


    constituted matter
    because he believed that
    water could change into
    any kind of matter.
    Empedocles of Agrigentum
     considered air,
    water, earth and fire
    as the four essential
    elements that are
    the sources of all
    kinds of matter.
    Leucippus
     considered the first
    atomist but is less
    well- known than
    Democritus.
    Fragments of a
    material can no
    longer be divided.
    Democritus
     Father of Atomism
     atoms were solid and

    indestructible
     believed that the

    universe only had


    atoms and empty
    space, which he called
    void
    Atomism
     refers to the philosophy
    for which all matter is
    produced from atoms.
    Aristotle
     Hot, cold, dry, and wet are the
    properties combined to produce
    fundamental elements.
     “ether” constituted the stars
    including the sun and filled the
    emptiness of space.
    Alchemy

    the study or process of
    rearranging atoms forming a
    certain substance such as gold.

    Alchemists
    - people who practice this method.
    - believed that consuming gold was
    the secret to immortality called as
    “elixir of life”
    Paracelsus

     founded the school of iatrochemistry


    (medical chemistry)
     production of metallic medicines to

    cure illnesses, thus encouraging


    alchemists to prepare drugs in the
    laboratory instead of transmuting
    metals into gold.
     “alcohol”
    Robert Boyle

     Postulated

    that
    elements
    water, fire,
    earth & air
    are not true
    Antoine- Laurent Lavoisier

     founder of “Law of
    Conservation of
    Mass”
     in chemical
    reaction, mass is
    neither created nor
    destroyed.
    Joseph- Louis Proust
     Three elements that constituted it
    were consistently found in constant
    and identical mass ratios.
     5:4:1ratio
    Law of Definite Proportion
     the mass ratio of
    elements in a chemical
    compound is always
    constant.
    Cathode Ray Tube Experiment
     vacuum tube with two metal electrodes
     cathode- negatively charged plate
     anode- positively charged plate
    Gold Foil Experiment
    Subatomic Particles
    Designation
    Protons Neutrons Electrons
    or symbols
    Relative
    p n e
    charge

    Location +1 0 -1

    Relative mass
    1 1 1/1840
    (amu)
    Pioneered by
    Eugen
    Goldstein; James Joseph John
    Discoverer
    coined by Chadwick Thomson

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