Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Dynamics of theory change in chemistry: Part 1. The benzene problem 1865–1945

SG Brush

Index: Prentice Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1896 , vol. 292, p. 287

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Citation Number: 60

Abstract

... Volume 30, Issue 1, March 1999, Pages 21–79. ... 4 Although most chemists had by then accepted P–I, which implied that the composition of benzene is C 6 H 6 , one can find French textbooks published as late as 1889 in which the older atomic weight C=6 is still used, leading to ...