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In his speech at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1882, the scientist Emil du Bois-Reymond, well-known at that time, has concluded: “Chemistry is not a science in the sense of the mathematical description of Nature.
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Mikhailov, A.S., Ertl, G. (2017). Thermodynamics of Open Systems. In: Chemical Complexity. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57377-9_2
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