La Enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la terminología química: magnitudes y símbolos

Authors

  • Aureli Caamaño Ros
  • Glinda Irazoque Palazuelos

Abstract

This article considers the difficulties in the use of the chemical terminology: some words are used in general language and in scientific language, the use of language as a way of labelling, polysemic words, synonimous words, the historical evolution of the meaning of some words, the different meaning of a word across the scholar curriculum and the prevalence of some words although its misleading meaning. After that, the article presents the most important IUPAC recommendations about the nomenclature of the physic-chemistry magnitudes and their units, showing the didactic importance of taking them into account.

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Published

2009-09-07

Issue

No. 3 (2009)

Section

Llenguatge i terminologia

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