The History of Chemistry

25: Seeing the Light

19 min • 29 augusti 2022

In this episode we review 19th-century photochemistry, particularly photography, as well as chain reactions catalyzed by light. We finish up with boiling-point elevation, the last of the "colligative properties." With these aspects of physical chemistry, 19th-century physical chemistry gelled into a full chemical field, and the journal Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie was born.

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