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There 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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inorganometallic Chemistry
Editors: Thomas P. Fehlner
Series Title: Modern Inorganic Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2459-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43986-5Published: 30 June 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2461-2Published: 19 June 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2459-9Published: 22 November 2013
Series ISSN: 0891-4540
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5057
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 401
Topics: Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Condensed Matter Physics, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials