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1. On an Application of Mathematics to Chemistry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

A. Crum Brown
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In this paper chemical substances are represented as “operands,” and chemical processes as “operators”—thus, φ·x is the substance produced by acting on the substance x by the process φ. When φ, χ, ψ, &c., act independently on x, this is indicated by the notation . When they act one on another to produce a complex operator which acts on x, the notation φ·χ·ψ·x is used. It is shown that in the latter case the commutative law does not apply to operators.

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Proceedings 1866-67
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 6 , 1869 , pp. 89 - 90
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1869

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