![]() ![]() Iron and manganese oxides were found in the caves of Lascaux, and used as pigments.įlint (rel. Prehistory: knew gold, silver, iron, mercury, tin, copper, lead. Includes some caveats about names and the limits of historical knowledge that applies just as well to Earth. ![]() Organized, of course, by Cadhinorian alchemical principles. Verdurian substance names and their origins. Contents The discovery of substances on EarthĮvery inorganic substance people knew about before about 1800, in chronological order. If this is just too geeky for you, here's just the good parts. Knowing all this, a plausible chronology of discovery and a reasonable set of names could be derived for Almea. I wanted to go about it 'the right way': to understand what substances would be known by cultures of various sophistication, how they were derived, what technology was required or where they might occur naturally, what they were used for, what properties they have. ![]() I didn't want to simply adapt terrestrial chemical terms, because these are based on elements you have to have a quite sophisticated theory and practice of chemistry to name something (say) "carbon dioxide". (Chemistry, unlike biology and culture, will work the same on every planet!) a project that required learning quite a bit about the history of chemistry on Earth. The history of chemistry on Earth and Almea The history of chemistry on Earth and Almea This was some research I did in order to name chemical substances in Verdurian. ![]()
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