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The Mixed Blessings of Pragmatism. Jean-Baptiste Dumas and the (Al)chemical Quest for Metallic Transmutation (2023)

Anatrini, Leonardo (Author)

Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Pages: 121-136

URI: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/2169

DOI: 10.36253/Substantia-2169

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Organic chemistry Chemical compounds Metals and metallic compounds Transmutation (alchemy) Alchemy 19th century Dumas, Jean Baptiste André

There were at least three prerequisites for the transmutability of metals to become once again a scientifically acceptable subject of research from the 1810s: new hypotheses concerning the mutual reducibility of certain elements, such as those of integer multiples and protyle put forward by the British chemist and physician William Prout; the experimental confirmation that chemical compounds with the same percentage composition could be substances with very different properties, i.e. the discovery of isomerism and allotropy; the comparison between metals and compound radicals of organic chemistry. This paper aims at illustrating how these premises were exploited by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, one of the leading French chemists of the 19th century, to reintroduce in the chemical discourse the alchemical topic of transmutation.

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