CHEMICAL REACTIONS Chemical reactions are the heart of chemistry. People have always known that they exist. The Ancient Greeks were the first to speculate on the composition of matter. They thought that it was possible that individual particles made up matter. Later, in the Seventeenth Century, a German chemist named George Ernst Stahl was the first to postulate on chemical reaction. He said that a substance called phlogiston escaped into the air from all substances …showed first 75 words of 419 total…

…showed last 75 words of 419 total…reactions. These include decomposition, polymerization, chain reactions, substitute reactions, elimination reactions, addition reactions, ionic reactions, and oxidation-reduction reactions. Bibliography "Chemical Reactions," Webster Encyclopedia. 1993. Eastman, Richard H., General Chemistry: Experimental and Theory, Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston Inc., 1970 Pauling, Linus and Peter, Chemistry, W. H. Freeman and Co., Bibliography Bibliography "Chemical Reactions," Webster Encyclopedia. 1993. Eastman, Richard H., General Chemistry: Experimental and Theory, Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston Inc., 1970 Pauling, Linus and Peter, Chemistry, W. H. Freeman and Co.,