During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
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Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.
I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
You have to look at how chemistry develops.
In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.
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