Essays Tagged: "french chemist"
Thallium
as Sir William Crookes. He discovered it spectroscopically in England. He isolated it. In 1862, the French chemist Claude August again isolated it. Thallium comes form the Greek word 'thallos'. 'Thall ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Food Preservation
c pieces to the person who devised a safe and dependable food-preservation process.The winner was a French chemist named Nicolas Appert. He observed that food heated in sealed containers was preserved ... Fifty years following the discovery by Nicolas Appert, another breakthrough had developed. Another Frenchman, named Louis Pasteur, noted the relationship between microorganisms and food spoilage. Thi ...
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Oxygen
ependently, by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele; it was shown to be an elemental gas by the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in his classic experiments on combustion.Large amounts of o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Mercury
icksilver which was studied by the alchemists. Mercury was first distinguished as an element by the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in his experiment on the composition of air. At room temper ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
The Quicksilver
ears, this chemical reaction, that formed this 'Quicksilver' as the alchemists called it. One day a French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier tested and proclaimed it a metal. And he named it Mercury ( ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Timeline of Elements?
cts. His progress provided the basis for scientific work more than a millennium.*1777: Lavoisier, a French chemist, who proved the conversation of matter and explained the mysteries of fire.*1780s: Co ... produce cathode rays for the first time.*1895: W.K. Roentgen discovered X-Rays.*1896: Becquerel, a French physicist, found that rays coming from a uraninum ore affected a photographic plate like X-Ra ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
L'oral's sales structure.
I.INTRODUCTIONIn 1907 Eugene Shueller a young French chemist developed an innovative hair-color formula. He called this new perfectly safe hair "A ... cultures through its many products whether it is selling Italian Elegance New York street smarts or French beauty L'Oreal is reaching out to more people across a bigger range of incomes and cultures t ... worldwide amongst companies that create the most value for shareholders. The group is also the only French company included in the list of the 30 worldwide groups that are most respected by directors ...
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A very brief history of chemistry. Includes important scientists and their contributions to the advancement of chemistry.
o size at all. Today, most atomic physicists accept a modern form of this idea.Antoine Lavoisier, a French chemist, revolutionized chemistry in the late 1700's. He repeated many of the experiments of ... same as dephlogisticated air, but Lavoisier renamed it oxygen.Lavoisier and Pierre Simon Laplace, a French astronomer and mathematician, also carried out experiments demonstrating that respiration in ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
This is my biography of Marie Curie. Make sure you include her Nobel prizes, as I forgot them in my report.
matics. She was a dedicated student, graduating at the top of her class.She met Pierre Curie, a French chemist, in 1894 and they were married in 1895. Beginning in 1896, the Curies worked on radi ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
An essay on Louis Pasteur
my name is Louis Pasteur I was a French chemist that dedicated my life to science and finding cures for people. My discoveries saved ... ous diseases. This was the foundation for the germ theory of disease. In the mid- 1860's the French winemakers asked me to help with their problems with wine going sour. I discovered that conta ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
All About Louis Pasteur
Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895)French chemist who studied the effect of tartaric acid on polarized light. Under a microscope in 184 ... aneous generation. He also discovered the parasite responsible for killing silkworms, and saved the French silk industry by recommending that all infected worms and mulberries by destroyed.Pasteur's w ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Haber Process
The Haber process was developed by two men; a German scientist called Fritz Haber and a French chemist called Henri Le Chatelier. The Haber process is when a reversible reaction between ni ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Vanadium
del Rio in 1801. Unfortunately, del Rio's new element was incorrectly declared impure chromium by a French chemist. Del Rio also thought that he himself was mistaken and accepted the chemist's stateme ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Lavoisier
French Chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, "fathter of modern chemistry" was born in Paris in 1743 an ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Preparing of Aspirin
s extracted salicylic acid from willow bark and produced the compound synthetically. Then, in 1853, French chemist Charles F. Gerhardt synthesized a primitive form of aspirin, a derivative of salicyli ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Chemical Engineering
Catalase
CatalaseThe enzyme of catalase was first noticed 1811 by the French chemist Louis Jacques Thenard, after he reacted barium peroxide with nitric acid. He discover ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
mass conservation
ass is conserved during a chemical reaction.The Law of Conservation of Mass, established in 1789 by French Chemist Antoine Lavoisier, states that mass is neither created nor destroyed in any ordinary ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry