# Affinity, That Elusive Dream

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- Book: [Affinity, That Elusive Dream](https://www.bookquiver.com/mi-gyung-kim/affinity-that-elusive-dream) ([Affinity, That Elusive Dream.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mi-gyung-kim/affinity-that-elusive-dream.md))
- Authors: [Mi Gyung Kim](https://www.bookquiver.com/mi-gyung-kim)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6261-223-4
- Pages: 613
- Published: 2008-01-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation....