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Interview with Eric Scerri 采访Eric Scerri

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09418-x

Edit Talpsepp

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Plato on chemistry 柏拉图论化学

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09426-x

Ernesto Paparazzo

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The habit of the pipe: a layperson’s view of the periodic table 管的习惯:一个外行人对元素周期表的看法

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-02-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09422-1

Sérgio Luís da Silva

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Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries 普通化学教科书词汇中关于物质概念的差异与概念联系

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-02-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09425-y

Larissa Moreira Ferreira, Jean Pscheidt Weiss, Marcelo Lambach

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Knowledge building in chemistry education 化学教育中的知识建构

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-02-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09419-w

Margaret A. L. Blackie

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What happened when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number? 当化学家开始按原子序数对元素进行分类时，发生了什么?

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-02-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09423-0

K. Brad Wray

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Orthogonality properties of states, configurations, and orbitals 态、构型和轨道的正交性

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-02-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09417-y

Balakrishnan Viswanathan, Mohamed Shajahan Gulam Razul

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Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions 密度泛函理论，化学反应性，和福井函数

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Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-01-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10698-022-09416-z

R. Pucci, G. G. N. Angilella