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Основы химии

Основы химии

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A balance with a glass bell on the left pan holding a log in air and weights on the right pan; the log turns to ash and smoke inside the bell and the beam stays level.
Nothing Disappears

Lavoisier Weighs Everything

Go back to the burning log. If you could catch all the smoke and weigh it, you would find that the gases weigh more than the wood did, because the wood has combined with part of the air. The acorn grows into an oak by taking gases from the air and water with dissolved substances from the soil.

Two glasses, salt solution and silver nitrate, poured together; a filter keeps white silver chloride and lets sodium nitrate through; the weights 58.5 plus 170 on the left and 143.5 plus 85 on the right both total 228.5 grams.
Gases You Cannot See

A Swap That Still Adds Up

A third experiment shows a swap, and this time with numbers. Dissolve common salt in water, and dissolve silver nitrate, which was once used to cauterise wounds, in another glass. Pour the two clear solutions together, and at once a white powder appears and sinks to the bottom.

A bar for 50 cubic inches of air split into 42 parts nitrogen and 8 parts oxygen; the oxygen part goes to the mercury, and a splinter goes out in the nitrogen.
Twelve Days with Mercury

Air Is Two Gases

The air left in the bell was strange. It would not turn any metal into scale, and it supported neither burning nor breathing. A lit splinter plunged into it went out at once, in Lavoisier's own words, as if it had been dipped into water.

A central box labelled affinity with three crossed-out candidates around it, gravity, cohesion and electricity, and a note that its nature is still hidden.
What Holds Substances Together

What Affinity Is Not

Now to the real question: what drives substances to combine, and what then holds them together? Each element has its own character. Sulphur combines easily with metals, with oxygen, with chlorine and with carbon; gold and silver combine reluctantly, and many of their compounds fall apart when heated.

Top, iron and water vapour give iron oxide and hydrogen, with a double arrow showing it runs both ways; bottom, gunpowder gives gases and smoke with a one-way arrow and a crossed-out return arrow.
A Window of Temperature

Reactions That Run Back

Mendeleev's next distinction is between reactions that can run backwards and those that cannot. Salt dissolves in water, and at the same temperature the solution can give back salt as the water evaporates.

An electrolysis cell: a vessel of liquid with two rods, the negative one collecting metal and hydrogen, the positive one oxygen and chlorine.
Halfway Apart

Current Splits Compounds

Heat is not the only thing that sways reactions. An electric current does much the same: it splits most compounds that conduct it, and near those conditions it can also make substances combine. Its great advantage is that it works at room temperature and can split even the most stubborn compounds.

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Примеры для: a curious adult with school chemistry; add one modern instance per idea, such as a kitchen, a battery, a lab scale or a factory

Источник

Лекции пересказывают русского текст: the 7th edition, St Petersburg 1903 (Internet Archive 20200627_mendeleev_basic). Автор умер в 1907 году; произведение перешло в общественное достояние. Пересказ, рисунки и голос сделаны ИИ и сверены с книгой второй моделью; вручную ничего не правилось. Как используется ИИ.

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