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Chemistry: A Panoply of Arrows
Author(s) -
Alvarez Santiago
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201101767
Subject(s) - arrow , alchemy , arrow of time , computer science , chemistry , epistemology , philosophy , art history , history , physics , quantum mechanics , quantum , programming language
Alchemists incorporated arrows in their symbolism (see picture) hundreds of years before modern chemists adopted arrows in chemical equations. The next time you insert an arrow in a chemical text consider why precisely that arrow is needed. What does it really mean? How did we learn to use arrows in chemistry? What do our arrows have in common with those of abstract artists?