{"product_id":"9780306439865","title":"Modern Inorganic Chemistry","description":"\u003ch1\u003eModern Inorganic Chemistry\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFehlner, Thomas P.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere is a certain fascination associated with words. The manipulation of strings of symbols according to mutually accepted rules allows a language to express history as well as to formulate challenges for the future. But language changes as old words are used in a new context and new words are created to describe changing situations. How many words has the computer revolution alone added to languages? \"Inorganometallic\" is a word you probably have never encountered before. It is one created from old words to express a new presence. A strange sounding word, it is also a term fraught with internal contradiction caused by the accepted meanings of its constituent parts. \"In­ organic\" is the name of a discipline of chemistry while \"metallic\" refers to a set of elements constituting a subsection of that discipline. Why then this Carrollian approach to entitling a set of serious academic papers? Organic, the acknowledged doyenne of chemistry, is distinguished from her brother, inorganic, by the prefix \"in,\" i. e. , he gets everything not organic. Organometallic refers to compounds with carbon-metal bonds. It is simple! Inorganometallic is everything else, i. e. , compounds with noncarbon-metal element bonds. But why a new term? Is not inorganic sufficient? By virtue of training, limited time, resources, co-workers, and so on, chemists tend to work on a specific element class, on a particular compound type, or in a particular phase. Thus, one finds element-oriented chemists (e. g.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1992-06-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780306439865\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4899-2459-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 401\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46312089682060,"sku":"9780306439865","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780306439865.jpg?v=1771518091","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780306439865","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}