Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ἰ̑σομερης.


Jahrebericht, 1832. Translated in Henry M. Leicester and Herbert S. Klickstein, A Source Book in Chemistry 1400–1900 (1952)

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Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of...

Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of...

Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of...

Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of...