Images of orbitals in twentieth-century General Chemistry textbooks: a semiotic analysis

This paper aims at investigating how the images of orbitals were presented in undergraduate General Chemistry textbooks throughout the twentieth century. Special attention was given to ontological and epistemological aspects related to such images. Images of orbitals from twenty-six textbooks use...

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Main Authors: Evandro Fortes Rozentalski, Paulo Alves Porto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2015-03-01
Series:Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID389/v20_n1_a2015.pdf