Chemistry Reference
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Chemistry
Analytical
Chemistry
Physical
chemistry
Nature of the matter
Bio
Organic
Organometallic
Inorganic
Figure 2.1
Analytical Chemistry as a viewpoint on the nature of the matter.
Social perception
Scientific societies & journals
Adjacent theories
Nucleus
Tools
Problems solved & remaning problems
Figure 2.2
A paradigm structure.
problems and to predict new factors which also could be correctly interpreted using the established paradigm
and that a crisis of a well-established paradigm can create a new paradigm, thus opening the door for a
scientific revolution.
The science, in the aforementioned frame, progresses with a restricted number of fundamentals and during
the periods of so called normal science everyone works comfortably, established in the tradition of their
scientific discipline. A revolution takes place when the accepted paradigm is not appropriate enough to
provide a correct answer to the new problems created by the advances in a discipline.
It is our opinion that nowadays the established paradigm in analytical chemistry has the same nucleus
as the whole chemistry one. It would be based on the atomic and molecular theory which explains, together
with the theory of the crystalline state, the relationship between sample composition and sample properties
and thus, based on this core it would be astonishing for researchers to find that a property of a material
could be based on a fraction of a molecule or that an atom could be totally destroyed during a reaction or
can be exchanged in arbitrary proportions. In the case of analytical chemistry (see Figure 2.3) the analytical
properties of methods, based on thermodynamic equilibrium and kinetic principles as well as the interaction
between the matter and the electromagnetic radiation, and between matter and the electric field, can
explain the basis of all the analytical procedures and form the basis of interpretation of all the problems
