Elements vs Protyle - What's the difference?
elements | protyle |
(pluralonly) Outdoor weather, such as wind or rain.
(pluralonly) The basic tenets of an area of knowledge.
(pluralonly) The bread and wine of the eucharist.
(physics, chemistry, historical) A hypothetical base substance from which all chemical elements were believed to have been made; subatomic particles.
* 2002 , Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2004, p. 73:
As a noun protyle is
(physics|chemistry|historical) a hypothetical base substance from which all chemical elements were believed to have been made; subatomic particles.elements
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(head) (p)protyle
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(-)- Dumas wondered whether the fundamental building blocks of atoms might be some smaller division of the hydrogen atom: a half, say, or a quarter. This basic substance became known as ‘protyle ’.
