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    heaviest in atomic mass. Some people dismissed Mendeleev for predicting that there would be more elements, but he was proved to be correct when Ga (gallium) and Ge (germanium) were found in 1875 and 1886 respectively, fitting perfectly into the two missing spaces. Later on in life, he created the periodic table. By giving Sanskrit names to his "missing" elements, Mendeleev showed his appreciation and debt to the Sanskrit grammarians of ancient India, who had created sophisticated theories of language

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    Dimitri Mendeleev a Russian chemist began the periodic table in 1869. He began by rearranging the elements by their atomic mass. He left blank spaces since there was a lot more discovery to be made later down the road. A physicist named Atonie Bequerel was the first to discover radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford was the first to discover alpha, beta, and gamma rays. Noble gases, electrons, protons, lanthanides and actinides were also discovered by several other scientists. The periodic table began

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    got the name atom from a Greek word, atomos which means that everything is uncut table. The atom was discovered by Ernest Rutherford while he was doing an experiment in 1911-1919. Ernest Rutherford suggested at first that the atoms orbited around atomic the nucleus, just like the planets. Atoms are basic units of matter that are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons and neutrons are particles that are found in the center of the atom, and the electrons are particles that are found in shells

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    For as much as I like Ernst Mach’s views on idealism and the excited belief that science will replace god in some form or another (like the form George Berkeley invoked in his excerpt), I find myself trying to understand Mach’s opposition to atomic theory as it was forming in the 19th to 20th century. My understanding is that to Mach, appearance is reality and that subsequently the sensations or observations we make are what is real. At the time, atoms could really only be inferred to exist; direct

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    realism), or about tables and chairs themselves (external world realism), or about mathematical entities such as numbers and sets (mathematical realism), and so forth. Scientific realism is a realism about whatever is described by our best scientific theories—from this point forward, ‘realism’ here denotes scientific realism. But what, more precisely, is that? In order to be evident as to what realism, in the context of the sciences, amounts to and to distinguish it from some important antirealist alternatives

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    This requires that there be a reasonable inference from a scientific theory 's success to its approximate truth. The argument that realists are trying to make is that the best explanation of a scientific theory 's success is that it is true. Larry Laudan refutes the realists ' argument from the success of science. To do this, he characterize his opposition as "Convergent Epistemological Realism." Convergent realism is a theory about the nature and history of science. Laudan identifies five central

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    realism), about tables and chairs themselves (external world realism), or about mathematical entities such as numbers and sets (mathematical realism), and so forth. Scientific realism is a realism about whatever is depicted by our best scientific theories—from this point forward, ‘realism’ here denotes scientific realism. But what, more precisely, is that? In order to be evident as to what scientific realism amounts to and to distinguish it from some important antirealist alternatives, it is useful

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    Postulates of Dalton’s Atomic Theory The main points of Dalton’s atomic theory, an explanation of the structure of matter in terms of different combinations of very small particles, are given by the following postulates: 1. All matter is composed of indivisible atoms. An atom is an extremely small particle of matter that retains its identity during chemical reactions. 2. An element is a type of matter composed of only one kind of atom, each atom of a given kind having the same properties. Mass

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    prove an opinion or theory. This does not necessarily

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    discover the element Cesium. Despite being surrounded by distinguished chemists at the university, Mendeleev chose to work alone in his private laboratory set up in his apartment. In 1860, he attended the International Chemistry Congress where he studied atomic weights, chemical symbols, and chemical formulas. He would use this research later on to formulate and design the periodic table we know and use

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