Modern chemical nomenclature
Nomenclatura química moderna (Méthode de nomenclature chimique)
- Date
- 1787 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau, Berthollet and Fourcroy
- People
- 👤 Antoine-François de Fourcroy1755–1809👤 Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier1743–1794👤 Claude Louis Berthollet1748–1822👤 Jean Henri Hassenfratz1755–1827👤 Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau1737–1816👤 Pierre Auguste Adet1763–1834
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
A system in which the name of each compound expresses its composition (oxides, acids, salts, -ite/-ate), replacing alchemical names. Spread through the Traité élémentaire de chimie (1789), the first modern textbook, with a list of 33 elements.
What it led to
- Universal chemical language
- IUPAC
- Systematic teaching of chemistry
Built on
- Oxygen1774
- Bergman's classification
- oxygen theory
Made possible
- chemical catalogues and manuals