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Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez; Mauricio Suárez – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
We present an approach to the question of the educational relations between chemistry and physics based on the one hand, on an inferentialist account of scientific representation (Suárez M., (2024), "Inference and Representation. A Study in Modelling Science," Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press). On the other, we have…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Criswell, Brett – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
Within the historical context of the development of chemistry, Avogadro's hypothesis represents a fundamental concept: It allowed Avogadro to explain Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes and it allowed Cannizzaro to establish a more accurate set of atomic mass values. If students are going to understand the concept of relative atomic masses and…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts