Resumen de Logic Lessons Lost
This commentary piece contains two criticisms of textbook definitions. One is the old definition of element (cannot be separated into...), to the correct definition (a class of atoms with the same atomic number). The second criticism concerns the correct name for a bonded atom as opposed to a free atom. These two species are not the same entities. The major suggestion here involves renaming all free nonbonded atoms atomes, while continuing to call bonded atoms what we have always called them, atoms. The vast majority of our atoms will then happily remain atoms, save the noble gases. The positive consequences of this renaming convention are briefly discussed.
