This subcategory gathers concepts belonging to chemistry: the ideas describing how matter is structured and how materials behave and are characterized, including crystal and molecular structure, phase behavior, the relationship between a material's own structure and its properties, chirality, and named industrial chemical processes such as the Haber process. A concept placed here explains a chemical or materials-science idea about composition, structure or transformation, distinct from a concept explaining the underlying physics, a biological process, or a purely mathematical idea, which belong to their own subcategories.
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Robert Boyle, although skeptical of elements and convinced of alchemy, played a key part in elevating the "sacred art" as an independent, fundamental and philosophical discipline in his work The Sceptical Chymist (1661).
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