Jean-Baptiste Dumas Quote

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.


Joint paper with Liebig, but written by Dumas, Comptes Rendus 1837, 5, 567. Trans. J. R. Partington, A History of Chemistry, Vol. 4


In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.