Here we seem to have the explanation of the apparent difference between the so-called ‘vital’ and the physico-chemical forces.
It is a familiar fact that after heavy rains the roadside rills carry along much sand and clay (which we know have been produced by the previous action of chemical forces), and also frequently small pebbles or gravel.
Chemical forces exist in nature, and these forces are sufficient to explain the formation of any kind of chemical compound.
In the simplest form of life in which vital manifestations are found are we to attribute these properties simply to chemical forces of the living substance, or must we here too attribute them to the action of a complicated machinery?
We have reduced them to the action of chemical forces acting in a machine.
These considerations bring us face to face with the task of more closely investigating the nature of chemical forces, in other words, of answering the question: what forces guide the atoms in the formation of a new molecular species?
The theory developed by Torbern Olof Bergman in 1775 must be regarded as the first attempt of importance to account for the mode of action of chemical forces.
Since we are not in a position to measure directly the intensity of chemical forces, the idea suggests itself to determine the strength of chemical affinity from the amount of the work which the corresponding reaction is able to do.
It need not surprise us because positive science, as such, can deal only with physical and chemical forces.
The physico-chemical forces do play second fiddle; that inexplicable something that we call vitality dominates and leads them.
He makes war on what he terms the metaphysical conception of a "life-principle" as the key to the problem, and urges the scientific conception of the adequacy of mechanico-chemical forces.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chemical forces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
