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Provedor de dados: | 17
País: | United Kingdom
Título: | A sorites paradox in the conventional definition of amount of substance
Autores: | Nigel Wheatley.
Data: | 2011-01-19
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Chemistry.
Resumo: | The conventional definition of amount of substance _n_ is as a quantity proportional to number of entities _N_. This implies that n is discrete for small _N_ while _n_ is considered to be continuous at the macroscopic scale, leading to a sorites paradox. A practical criterion is proposed for distinguishing between amount of substance and number of entities, and the implications for the conventional definition of amount of substance are discussed.
Tipo: | Manuscript

Identificador:

http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5568/version/1

oai:nature.com:10101/npre.2011.5568.1

http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2011.5568.1

Fonte: | Nature Precedings
Fonte: | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License