Chemical Reactions

Chemical Reactions Chemical reactions are the heart of chemistry. People have always known that they exist. The Ancient Greeks were the firsts to speculate on the composition of matter. They thought that it was possible that individual particles made up matter. Later, in the Seventeenth Century, a German chemist named Georg Ernst Stahl was the first to postulate on chemical reaction, specifically, combustion. He said that a substance called phlogiston escaped into the air from …showed first 75 words of 2089 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2089 total…tremendous effect on what scientists can do in the future. By studying how to manipulate them to make certain products that could revolutionize the world. Bibliography · "Chemical Reactions," Encyclopedia Brittanica MACROPEDIA, 1995, Vol. 15 · Eastman, Richard H., General Chemistry: Experimental and Theory, Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston Inc., 1970 · "One Molecule at a Time", Discover, January 1996 · Pauling, Linus and Peter, Chemistry , W. H. Freeman and Co., 1975 · "Reactions, Chemical," Encyclopedia Americana, 1982, Vol. 23 · "Reactions, Chemical," Academic American Encyclopedia, 1991, Vol. 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**