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  2. List of chemical classifications - Wikipedia

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    Chemical classification systems attempt to classify elements or compounds according to certain chemical functional or structural properties. Whereas the structural properties are largely intrinsic, functional properties and the derived classifications depend to a certain degree on the type of chemical interaction partners on which the function is exerted.

  3. Principle (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The idea of chemical principles developed out of the classical elements. Paracelsus identified the tria prima as principles in his approach to medicine . In his book The Sceptical Chymist of 1661, Robert Boyle criticized the traditional understanding of the composition of materials and initiated the modern understanding of chemical elements .

  4. Chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. [1] It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during reactions with other substances.

  5. Insurance Institute of India - Wikipedia

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    The Insurance Institute of India (III) is the sole national apex body for insurance underwriters in India, established in 1955 in Mumbai.The institute, formerly known as Federation of Insurance Institutes (J.C. Setalvad Memorial) (Regd.), was created for the purpose of promoting insurance education and training in India. [1]

  6. Physical chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Physical chemistry, in contrast to chemical physics, is predominantly (but not always) a supra-molecular science, as the majority of the principles on which it was founded relate to the bulk rather than the molecular or atomic structure alone (for example, chemical equilibrium and colloids).

  7. Property insurance - Wikipedia

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    An 18th-century fire insurance contract. Property insurance can be traced to the Great Fire of London, which in 1666 devoured more than 13,000 houses.The devastating effects of the fire converted the development of insurance "from a matter of convenience into one of urgency, a change of opinion reflected in Sir Christopher Wren's inclusion of a site for 'the Insurance Office' in his new plan ...

  8. Casualty insurance - Wikipedia

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    Casualty insurance is a defined term [1] which broadly encompasses insurance not directly concerned with life insurance, health insurance, or property insurance. Casualty insurance is mainly liability coverage of an individual or organization for negligent acts or omissions. [ 2 ]

  9. Life insurance - Wikipedia

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    It was the world's first mutual insurer and it pioneered age based premiums based on mortality rate laying "the framework for scientific insurance practice and development" [12] and "the basis of modern life assurance upon which all life assurance schemes were subsequently based". [13]