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The practice of modern chemistry involves a particular way of viewing the world and the universe quite unlike that of a child or an adult not educated in modern chemistry. A chemist thinks of matter in terms of its abstraction into pure elements or compounds in order to apply the models, theories, and laws that have developed in the history of chemistry to help us understand the changes that occur in our world and in our bodies. One way of illustrating this is to show how our view of a chemical reaction changed over time as our tools became more sophisticated. Building a model of a chemical reaction proves somewhat more challenging than building a house, because the building materials for a chemical reaction are invisible and require special instruments to access them and understand their behaviour.
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de Berg, K.C. (2019). Conclusion. In: The Iron(III) Thiocyanate Reaction. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27316-3_9
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