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substance is not defined, overlap with chemicalSubstance

Open adhamhashibon opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Referes to EMMO version: beta-4.0

Issue: We have AmountofSubstance, and Chemical Substance, but Substance itself is not defined as ontological entity, at the same time, the elucidation of chemicalSubstance is actually that of Substance:

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Discussion: @emanueleghedini should substance not be defined as subclass of matter and superclass of chemicalEntity?, e.g, the dictionary of substance is:

a particular kind of matter with uniform properties which agrees with the chemical substance definition (which has the matter represented using molecular entities.

adhamhashibon avatar Aug 16 '22 14:08 adhamhashibon