Atoms and Molecules Supplementary Packages
Introduction of NCERT book in class 9 book:
Ancient Indian and Greek philosophers have
always wondered about the unknown and
unseen form of matter. The idea of divisibility
of the matter was considered long back in India,
around 500 BC. An Indian philosopher
Maharishi Kanad, postulated that if we go on
dividing matter (padarth), we shall get smaller
and smaller particles. Ultimately, a time will
come when we shall come across the smallest
particles beyond which further division will
not be possible. He named these particles
Parmanu. Another Indian philosopher,
Pakudha Katyayama elaborated this doctrine
and said that these particles normally exist
in a combined form which gives us various
forms of matter.
Around the same era, ancient Greek
philosophers – Democritus and Leucippus
suggested that if we go on the dividing matter, a the stage will come when particles obtained
cannot be divided further. Democritus called
these indivisible particles atoms (meaning
indivisible). All this was based on
philosophical considerations and not much
experimental work to validate these ideas
could be done till the eighteenth century.
By the end of the eighteenth century,
scientists recognized the difference between
elements and compounds and naturally
became interested in finding out how and why
elements combine and what happens when
they combine.
Antoine L. Lavoisier laid the foundation
of chemical sciences by establishing two
important laws of chemical combination
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