W. Ostwald and E. Mach subsequently developed the study, and by the late 1800s energetics was understood to be incompatible with the atomic view of the atom forwarded by Boltzmann's gas theory.
W. Ostwald i E. Mach su zatim razvili studiju i krajem 19. stoljeća energetika je smatrana nekompatibilnom s atomskim pogledom atoma nasljeđenom od Boltzmannove teorije plinova.