Vor 200 Jahren (1814) Berzeliussche Formelsprache Der schwedische Naturforscher Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779 — 1848) revolutioniert mit seiner Arbeit “On the chemical signs and the method of employing them to express chemical proportions” nachhaltig das System der chemischen Formelsymbole. “I shall take … , for the chemical sign, the initial letter of the Latin name of each elementary substance. The chemical signs express always one volume of the substance … When we express the compound volumes of the first order, we throw away the + and place the number of volumes above the letter: for example CuO+SO3= sulphate of copper.” Die zuvor beispielsw...