人类研究化学的历史,可以追朔到中世纪以前。但由于受到炼金术和炼丹术束缚,在一段相当长的历史时期内,化学被当作巫术对待,无所进展。到了17世纪后半叶,化学元素概念在欧洲出现,化学才真正作为一门科学开始有了发展。特别是到了18世纪70年代,法国化学家拉瓦锡建立了科学的氧化燃烧学说,掀起了 The history of human chemistry can be traced back to the Middle Ages. But for a long period of time, chemistry was treated as witchcraft, with no progress, because of alchemy and alchemy. By the second half of the 17th century, the concept of chemical elements appeared in Europe, and chemistry really started to develop as a science. Especially by the 1870s, the French chemist Lavoisier established a scientific theory of oxidative combustion and set off