Element


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1 The concept of element.
2 The comparison of element, principle, and cause.
3 The theory of the elements in natural philosophy, physics, and chemistry.
4 Element and atom, qualitative and quantitative indivisibility.
5 The enumeration of the elements, their properties and order.
6 The mutability or transmutation of the elements, radioactive decay.
7 Combinations of the elements, compounds and mixtures.
8 The discovery of elements in other arts and sciences.
9 The conception of atoms as indivisible, imperceptible, and indestructible.
10 Arguments for and against the existence of atoms, the issue concerning the infinite divisibility of matter.
11 Atoms and the void as the ultimate constituents of reality.
12 The number, variety, and properties of atoms, the production of sensible things by their collocation.
13 The atomistic account of sensation and thought, the idola.
14 The atomic constitution of mind and soul, its bearing on immortality.
15 The explanation of natural phenomena by reference to the properties and motions of atoms.
16 The atomistic account of the origin and decay of the world, its evolution and order.
17 The conception of atoms as divisible, detectable but not perceptible, and composed of elementary particles, theories of atomic structure, the properties of subatomic particles.


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