Throughout more than four hundred years of existence, the opera repertoire has been traditionally regarded as a repository of love, seduction, betrayal and vengeance stories. Nevertheless, opera plots often display numerous ideas, concepts and even personalities that belong to the domain of science, with special relevance for chemistry.<br/>From the four cosmogenic elements (water, fire, earth and air) to alchemy and from the ancient Greek Atomist School to the atomic bomb, this communication will be an operatic trip covering a time gap of nearly 2500 years.

From the elements to the atomic fire: An operatic perception of chemistry

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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