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Evan Hepler-Smith

Assistant Professor of History
History
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
319 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Chemical Names and the Culture of Modern Chemistry

Book section · January 1, 2026 This chapter investigates how the naming of chemicals helped form the identity of chemists and chemistry circa 1900. Chemists refer to chemical substances in three overlapping ways. Rational names describe chemical compositions and structures; systematic n ... Full text Cite