Chemistry
Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. Chemistry began as a rigorous discipline only a few decades ago, when Lunhed Ettinhaal, a mystic theurge and cleric of Nebelun, did a series of experiments that provided support for his energy-matter typing theory.
Sub-Disciplines
- Arcane chemistry: The study of the physical properties of spells, rituals, invocations, prayers, evocations, and magical objects; the fine structure of their effects; and the roles material components and focuses play.
- Mundane chemistry: The study of non-magical substances, and the non-magical components of magical substances and objects.
- Organic chemistry: The study of the chemicals used by, in, and on non-elemental living and undead creatures.
- Elemental life chemistry: The study of the chemicals used by, in, and on elementals.
- Sub-molecular chemistry: The study of the basic elemental particles, positive, negative, fire, water, earth, and air.
- Aggregate chemistry: The study of heteromolecules, compounds containing three or more different elements.
- Aggregate chemistry: The study of heteromolecules, compounds containing three or more different elements.
Basic Concepts
Matter is comprised of a combination of elements. There are 6 different elements: Positive, Negative, Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. These elements exist in the form of spherical particles. These particles emit a field of force that pushes and pulls on nearby elemental particles. These particles can then be positioned so their relative distance is constant. Such an arrangement is called a bond. Particles tend to repeal as they approach each other, until they reach the bonding distance. If they are pushed together further one of three things can happen.
- If they are the same element, the particle will combine into a bigger particle.
- If they are opposing elements (air opposes earth, fire opposes water, positive opposes negative), they will annihilate, creating force, and either disappear or have the excess remain.
- Otherwise, it will require more and more force to bring them together and the particles will never touch.
- If a particle is a stable size, it takes energy to break it down.
- If it is a metastable size, it can be apart of a compound, but will split if it doesn’t have enough bonds.
- If it is an unstable size, it will split into smaller particles spontaneously.
Properties
- Positive and negative particles are the lightest. They tend to form many bonds with each other, creating a lattice of positive or negative particles.
- Fire particles tend to be lighter, so fire-containing compounds are less dense. It tends to readily bond with other elements.
- Water particles bond loosely, allowing molecules to flow past each other.
- Earth particles make really strong bonds; earthen things tend to be either very strong or brittle due to inflexibility.
- Air particles like to have only one bonds, and the bond is weak. Air compounds are volatile and tend to react with most things when heated.
- Opposing elements rarely bond with each other, and when they do, they is always a third type of element present. For example, fire, water, and negative particles of roughly the same size arranged in a triangle forms soda ash, a common detergent.
- Quasi-elemental compounds are compounds that contain either positive or negative particles and exactly one other type of particle. Para-elemental compounds are compounds that contain exactly two different types of particle and aren't quasi-elemental compounds.
Table: Para- and Quasi-Elemental Types
Positive | Negative | Fire | Water | Earth | Air | |
Positive | ---- | ---- | Radiance | Steam | Mineral | Lightning |
Negative | ---- | ---- | Ash | Salt | Dust | Vacuum |
Fire | Radiance | Ash | ---- | ---- | Magma | Smoke |
Water | Steam | Salt | ---- | ---- | Ooze | Ice |
Earth | Mineral | Dust | Magma | Ooze | ---- | ---- |
Air | Lightning | Vacuum | Smoke | Ice | ---- | ---- |
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