Metachemistry

It is none the less true that a metachemistry came into being with the Mendeleeff table and that the ordering and rationalizing tendency led to ever more numerous, ever more profound successes.

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Metachemistry includes orthodox chemistry. In orthodox chemistry, the chemist is concerned principally with the contents of acts of chemical understanding. In metachemistry, both the contents of the chemist's acts of chemical understanding, as well as the acts themselves, are of interest.

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By contrast, 'metachemistry' pays attention to the variety of states of matter, to the plurality of materials.

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Metachemistry would concern itself with the release of energy of the sun's radiation which impinges on the highest strata of the atmosphere and is stored in the atoms and molecules which it excites and ionizes.

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