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Why is electricity not part of the classical alchemical elements? (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water) in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago

Exactly. I think the elements fire, air, water etc are from the presocratics and they did not have any concept of electricity yet.