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A blog about chemistry without jargon (but with some jargonium). www.jargonium.com Created & edited by Sarah Hijmans, Karoliina Pulkkinen & Vanessa Seifert @kj-pulkkinen.bsky.social @vanessaseifert.bsky.social
News from Jargonium's co-editor @vanessaseifert.bsky.social ! Her new research project, PExAI: Predicting & Explaining w/ AI is officially launched. Join the hybrid kick off event that will take place on the 18th of May in Athens! www.jargonium.com/post/pexai-a...
PExAI: Predicting & Explaining with AI
A new project bridging the philosophy of chemistry with the philosophy of AI.
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The 2nd edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics, is now out! Check out what its all about in this short piece by the author himself!!! www.jargonium.com/post/a-new-e...
Second edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics, is now out!
A new edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics: Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes, is now out!
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Huge congrats to Annette Lykknes for this amazing award!!! www.jargonium.com/post/annette...
Annette Lykknes receives the 2026 HIST Award
Annette Lykknes receives the 2026 HIST Award
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If you believe Mendeleev is the one who (first) discovered periodicity in the chemical elements well.. you'd be wrong. Our new article by Pierre Avenas explains why in "The first periodic table? The telluric screw of Chancourtois" www.jargonium.com/post/the-fir...
The first periodic table? The telluric screw of Chancourtois
In 1862 Béguyer de Chancourtois published his classification of elements, the first to identify periodicity on the basis of atomic weight. This post discusses this discovery
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And the debate goes on! New article on the chemical bond, from the perspective of a working chemist- check it out 👇 www.jargonium.com/post/the-che...
The chemical bond: The biggest chemical paradigm, or the greatest chemical uncertainty?
How should we define the chemical bond?
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The #MSCA project #CReaCaL is officially over, so here is one final post that I wrote for @jargonium.bsky.social to sum up what I did in the last couple of years. Not many answers; rather more questions came out of this work! www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
Chemical reactions as causes? (part III)
In this final article prompted by the work done during the research project "Chemical Reactions as Causes and Laws", I would like to present some of the problems and challenges that I encountered when...
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2026 Partington Prize call for entries! The prize (£500) is awarded every three years for an original and unpublished essay the history of alchemy or chemistry to be exclusively published in the Society's journal, Ambix. More info can be found here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Partington Prize 2026
Published in Ambix (Vol. 72, No. 2, 2025)
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For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to have Kostas Gavroglu Prof. Emeritus @ the Un. of Athens. He is an expert historian of chemistry, among the few who have illuminated the social, historical & philosophical aspects of early quantum chemistry www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
Jargonium asks … Kostas Gavroglu
Kostas Gavroglu is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens.
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Jargonium asks... Eric Scerri! In this column we ask established scholars to answer a series of questions regarding the nature of their work and how they see the field progressing. Check out our latest interview! www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
Jargonium Asks... Eric Scerri
For the latest issue of Jargonium Asks, we are thrilled to feature an interview with Eric R. Scerri, chemist and philosopher based at UCLA. Eric has published widely on philosophy of chemistry, and is...
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Jargonium is.. *a chemical element that turned out to be a compound * a blog about chemistry * bridging the humanities with chemistry 🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com
Bridging the Humanities with Chemistry | Jargonium
Established by early-career researchers with a shared research interest in history and philosophy of chemistry, Jargonium showcases short essays on chemistry and alchemy from the perspective of humani...
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