Chem 125 Lecture 20 10/22/08 This material is for the exclusive use of Chem 125 students at Yale and may not be copied or distributed further. It is not readily understood without reference to notes or the wiki from the lecture.

Elementary Treatise of Chemistry 1789 PRESENTED IN A NEW ORDER AND ACCORDING TO MODERN DISCOVERIES With Figures

Oxidation States Radical 1° "oxide" 2° "-ous" acid 3° "-ic" acid 4° "oxygenated -ic" acid

Elemental Analysis by Oil Combustion Air Supply Lamp Oil Supply H 2 O Collector CO 2 Collector

How to analyze a substance that will not burn cleanly? e.g. grape sugar Everyone knows how wine, cider and mead are made…

Plate X: Fermentation Apparatus H 2 O Absorption by CaCl 2 CO 2 Absorption by NaOH soln. any other Gas Foam catcher Sugar/Yeast/Water

I can consider the materials subjected to fermentation and the products of fermen- tation as an algebraic equation; and by in turn supposing each of the elements of this equation to be unknown, I can derive a value and thus correct experiment by calculation and calculation by experi- ment. I have often profited from this way of correcting the preliminary results of my experiments. Fermentation it can furnish a means of analyzing sugar Oxidation failed with air oxygen sulfuric acid mercuric oxide etc. because of incomplete combustion (charring)

Lavoisier’s Bookkeeping 72 grains = 1 gros 8 gros = 1 ounce = g

Lavoisier’s Bookkeeping

Hydrogen Generator Red-hot Glass Tube Water 28 grains Carbon Water Water (less 85.7 grains) 144 cu. in. (100 grains) Carbonic Gas 380 cu. in. (13.7 grains) Flammable Gas Carbon + Water 28 gr gr. = Carbonic Gas + "Hydrogen" 100 gr gr. "I have thought it best to correct by calculation and to present the experiment in all its simplicity." from 28 gr. C (modern theory) ……… ? + + = ! 1.38 g Trait é pp

FactsIdeas Words Lavoisier Contributions Elements Conservation of Mass Oxidation Radical/Acid Salts Apparatus Quantitation Mass volume Substances Reactions Meaningful Names Element - Oxidation State - Salt Composition -ous, -ic, -ide, -ite, -ate Clarity

[Chemistry's] present progress, however, is so rapid, and the facts, under the modern doctrine, have assumed so happy an arrangement, that we have ground to hope, even in our own times, to see it approach near to the highest state of perfec- tion of which it is susceptible. Lack of Imagination

"Il ne leur a fallu qu’un moment pour faire tomber cette tête, et cent années peut-être ne suffiront pas pour en reproduire une semblable." "It took them only an instant to make this head fall, but a hundred years may not suffice to reproduce one like it." Lavoisier Guillotined May 8, 1794 Age 50 "The Republic has no need of geniuses.” But all of his equipment (including 80 pounds of mercury) was seized for The People.

Boyle Lavoisier √ √

John Dalton Why do gases of different density remain mixed rather than stratifying? amateur meteorologist 1801 Continental European scientists proposed that different gases attract one another.

"the atoms of one kind did not repel the atoms of another kind" Atom “Heat Envelope” Match  Repulsion Mismatch  Reduced Repulsion Substitutes homorepulsion for heteroattraction

Atoms Explain: Definite Proportions Equivalent Proportions Multiple Proportions Pure compounds always have the same weight ratio of their elements. If a parts of A react with b parts of B, and a parts of A react with c parts of C, … If two elements form several compounds, their weight ratios are related by simple factors. and d parts of D react with b parts of B, then d parts of D react with c parts of C.

Definite Proportions? Joseph Louis PROUST ( ) Claude Louis B ERTHOLLET ( ) NON!OUI ! metal alloys natural "organic" materials "chemicals" 

Multiple Proportions O/C O/N Oxides of Carbon%C%O Carbonic Acid (1801) Carbonous Acid (1789) Oxides of Nitrogen%N%O Nitrous Oxide (1810) Nitrous Gas (1810) Nitric Acid (1810) [1] ~ ~ ~ [1] Rel. integral values consistent with simple atomic ratios %err of (O/C) vs. modern %err of (O/N) vs. modern

Genealogy Top

Berzelius etc. √

Berzelius Jöns-Jakob BERZELIUS ( ) Organic & Mineral Analysis Dualism (double decomposition) Electrolysis Notation for Composition Teaching & Writing Textbook (1808) 2000 compounds in 6 years! Good Atomic Weights for 50 elements!

Notation for Composition Alchemy Dalton Berzelius

Chemical Symbols of 1774 (Sweden) 1774 Symbols

“When only one combination of two bodies can be obtained, it must be pre- sumed to be a binary one, unless some other cause appear to the contrary.” Chemical Symbols of 1774 (Sweden) HO HN NO HC OC N 2 O NO 2 CO 2 CH 2 H N C O P S Mg Ca Na K Sr Ba Fe Zn Cu Pb Ag Pt Au Hg (Corresponding Berzelius Symbols) Dalton Notation (1808) NO 3 SO 3 SH 3 C 3 H “When four…one binary, two ternary, and one quarternary, &c. Latin (international) Analytical (NOT structural) Berzelius Notation (1811) Dalton’s Logic N 2 O NO 2 CO 2 CH 2 NO 3 SO 3 SH 3 C 3 H When three…a binary, and the other two ternary. ” “When two combinations are observed, they must be presumed to be a binary and a ternary…

Abbreviations: Dots denote O atoms = KO CrO 3 Superscripts denote numbers of atoms Benzoic should be H 10 C 14 O 3 (“acid” as anhydride) Didn’t catch on

Atomic Weights and Equivalents

Dalton’s Atomic Weights (1808) Weights HCNOPSHCNOPS /1 /2 /3 /2 /3 /2 % err

Silicon Chloride SiCl T. Thomson SiCl 2 L. Gmelin SiCl 3 J. J. Berzelius SiCl 4 Wm. Odling ?

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1809) Oxidation of Sugar, etc. with NaClO 3 Cleans up Lavoisier's Mass Balance volumes of hydrogen per volumes of oxygen Water gives volumes of hydrogen per 1 volume of nitrogen Ammonia gives Alternative to Dalton's Law of Greatest Simplicity ,016 m (record for 50 years) ( ) Established that atmosphere composition is invariant with altitude.

End of Lecture 20 Oct. 22, 2008