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 ...

(2 pages) 37 0 2.5 Mar/1997

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 ...

(11 pages) 136 0 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

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 ...

(3 pages) 70 0 3.7 Feb/1997

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 ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.2 Feb/1997

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 ( ...

(1 pages) 33 0 4.0 Oct/1996

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 ...

(2 pages) 34 0 3.0 Mar/2003

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 ...

(14 pages) 352 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

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 ...

(3 pages) 11790 0 2.3 Nov/2003

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 ...

(1 pages) 36 0 4.3 Jan/2004

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 ...

(2 pages) 32 0 5.0 May/2004

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 ...

(2 pages) 24 0 2.0 Mar/2006

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 ...

(2 pages) 26 0 4.0 Apr/2006

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 ...

(1 pages) 1194 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Lavoisier

French Chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, "fathter of modern chemistry" was born in Paris in 1743 an ...

(1 pages) 1592 0 0.0 Sep/2001

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 ...

(6 pages) 47 2 3.8 Dec/2007

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 ...

(4 pages) 3486 0 5.0 Mar/2009

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 ...

(7 pages) 5 0 0.0 May/2013

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry