Chemistry Is Nof a Laboratory Science

摘要

Chemistry existed before there were laboratories,before there were humans,before there was life.Chemistry is the combination of principles and facts that caused the formation of the earth and its layering,that governs the ecosystem,and that underlie the properties of materials and of living organisms.Duplicating what we chemists do in our laboratories (or what chemists of earlier generations used to do) does not enhance students' understanding of chemistry's centrality,but makes chemistry an irrelevance.