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Periodic Tables from the year 1858:
1858 | Cannizzaro's Letter |
Year: 1858 | PT id = 1047, Type = formulation data |
Cannizzaro's Letter
Letter of Professor Stanislao Cannizzaro to Professor S. De Luca: Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy given in the Royal University of Genoa, Il Nuovo Cimento, vol. vii. (1858), pp. 321-366.
Many thanks to Carmen Giunta, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Le Moyne College who provided the information about, and link to, Cannizzaro's Letter. See a list of other classic chemistry papers.
"I believe that the progress of science made in these last years has confirmed the hypothesis of Avogadro, of Ampère, and of Dumas on the similar constitution of substances in the gaseous state; that is, that equal volumes of these substances, whether simple or compound, contain an equal number of molecules: not however an equal number of atoms, since the molecules of the different substances, or those of the same substance in its different states, may contain a different number of atoms, whether of the same or of diverse nature."
From the Science History of Science Institute:
"In 1858 Cannizzaro outlined a course in theoretical chemistry for students at the University of Genoa,where he had to teach without benefit of a laboratory. He used the hypothesis of a fellow Italian, Amedeo Avogadro, who had died just two years earlier, as a pathway out of the confusion rampant among chemists about atomic weights and the fundamental structure of chemical compounds."
Mark Leach writes:
"Before a periodic table of the chemical elements – which orders the elements by atomic weight and then groups them by property – could be developed it was necessary to know the atomic weight values. However, to deduce the atomic weights was a problem as it was necessary to know the ratios of how the elements combined, the stoichiometry.
"Tables of atomic weight data by Dalton (1808), Wollaston (1813) and Daubeny (1831) show progress, but the 1858 Cannizzaro letter was the first where the atomic weight data is more or less both complete and accurate.
"I have extracted the element atomic weight data from the paper, and given the % error with respect to modern atomic weight/mass data. Only titanium is significantly out! It is clear that Cannizzaro knew that hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, chlorine, bromine & iodine existed as diatomic molecules."
Element | Symbol | Cannizzaro's Weight | Modern Weight/Mass | % error |
Hydrogen | H | 1 | 1.008 | -0.8% |
Boron | B | 11 | 10.81 | 1.7% |
Carbon | C | 12 | 12.011 | -0.1% |
Nitrogen | N | 14 | 14.007 | 0.0% |
Oxygen | O | 16 | 15.999 | 0.0% |
Sodium | Na | 23 | 22.99 | 0.0% |
Magnesium | Mg | 24 | 24.305 | -1.3% |
Aluminium | Al | 27 | 26.982 | 0.1% |
Silicon | Si | 28 | 28.085 | -0.3% |
Sulphur | S | 32 | 32.06 | -0.2% |
Phosphorus | P | 32 | 30.974 | 3.2% |
Chlorine | Cl | 35.5 | 35.45 | 0.1% |
Potassium | K | 39 | 39.098 | -0.3% |
Calcium | Ca | 40 | 40.078 | -0.2% |
Chromium | Cr | 53 | 51.996 | 1.9% |
Manganese | Mn | 55 | 54.938 | 0.1% |
Iron | Fe | 56 | 55.845 | 0.3% |
Titanium | Ti | 56 | 47.867 | 14.5% |
Copper | Cu | 63 | 63.546 | -0.9% |
Zinc | Zn | 66 | 65.38 | 0.9% |
Arsenic | As | 75 | 74.922 | 0.1% |
Bromine | Br | 80 | 79.904 | 0.1% |
Zirconium | Zr | 89 | 91.224 | -2.5% |
Silver | Ag | 108 | 107.87 | 0.1% |
Tin | Sn | 117.6 | 118.71 | -0.9% |
Iodine | I | 127 | 126.9 | 0.1% |
Platinum | Pt | 197 | 195.08 | 1.0% |
Mercury | Hg | 200 | 200.59 | -0.3% |
Lead | Pb | 207 | 207.2 | -0.1% |
Diatomic Molecule | Formula | Cannizzaro's Weight | Modern Weight/Mass | % error |
Hydrogen | H2 | 2 | 2.016 | -0.8% |
Oxygen | O2 | 32 | 31.998 | 0.0% |
Sulphur | S2 | 64 | 64.12 | -0.2% |
Chlorine | Cl2 | 71 | 70.9 | 0.1% |
Bromine | Br2 | 160 | 159.808 | 0.1% |
Iodine | I2 | 254 | 253.8 | 0.1% |
Molecule | Formula | Cannizzaro's Weight | Modern Weight/Mass | % error |
Water | H2O | 18 | 18.015 | -0.1% |
Hydrochloric Acid | HCl | 36.5 | 36.458 | 0.1% |
Methane | CH4 | 16 | 16.043 | -0.3% |
Hydrogen sulphide | H2S | 34 | 34.076 | -0.2% |
Diethyl ether | CH3CH2OCH2CH3 | 74 | 74.123 | -0.2% |
Carbon disulphide | CS2 | 76 | 76.131 | -0.2% |
Chloroethane | CH3CH2Cl | 64.5 | 64.512 | 0.0% |
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