• Hall–Héroult process, the Wöhler process and related chemical-based routes became obsolete. In 1827, Friedrich Wöhler refined a process discovered by...
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    silane and silicon nitride. Wöhler is also known for seminal contributions in organic chemistry, in particular, the Wöhler synthesis of urea. His synthesis...
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    Hall-Héroult process, Deville process, Bayer process, Wöhler process) Ammonia, used in fertilizer – (Haber process) Bromine – (Dow process) Chlorine, used...
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  • Wöhler may refer to: People August Wöhler (1819–1914), German engineer Cordula Wöhler (1845–1916), German writer and hymnwriter Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882)...
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    Submerged-arc furnace for phosphorus production (category Industrial processes)
    electrodes to facilitate the furnace's process. Large-scale production of phosphorus uses the Wöhler process. In this process, apatites (nearly always fluorapatite)...
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    fatigue testing undertaken by Sir William Fairbairn and August Wöhler. 1870: A. Wöhler summarises his work on railroad axles. He concludes that cyclic...
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    lampooned in an anonymous publication by Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler.: 108–109  The turning point came when Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), during...
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  • an important raw material for the chemical industry. In 1828, Friedrich Wöhler discovered that urea can be produced from inorganic starting materials,...
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    tri-keto tautomer. Cyanuric acid (CYA) was first synthesized by Friedrich Wöhler in 1829 by the thermal decomposition of urea and uric acid. The current...
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  • fatigue failures in railway development and the industrial revolution. Wöhler, e.g. carried out extensive work on the fatigue strength of metals subjected...
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    Hans Christian Ørsted, whose work was extended by German chemist Friedrich Wöhler. Aluminium was difficult to refine and thus uncommon in actual use. Soon...
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    of this metal. For many years thereafter, Wöhler was credited as the discoverer of aluminium. As Wöhler's method could not yield great quantities of...
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    leach solutions, in an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. It is a step in the processing of uranium after it has been mined but before...
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    things. This was disproved in 1828, when Friedrich Wöhler prepared urea from inorganic materials. This Wöhler synthesis is considered the starting point of...
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  • of a substance that had been known only as a byproduct of living processes. Wöhler obtained urea by treating silver cyanate with ammonium chloride, a...
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    A variety of processes, equipment, and materials are used in the production of a three-dimensional object via additive manufacturing. 3D printing is also...
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    cyanate and ammonium sulfate), in what is now called the Wöhler synthesis. Although Wöhler himself was cautious about claiming he had disproved vitalism...
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    from natural sources were identical. In 1824, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler obtained oxalic acid by reacting cyanogen with ammonia in aqueous solution...
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    only living beings could produce the molecules of life. In 1828, Friedrich Wöhler published a paper on his serendipitous urea synthesis from potassium cyanate...
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    referred to as hydroquinones. The name "hydroquinone" was coined by Friedrich Wöhler in 1843. In 2021, it was the 282nd most commonly prescribed medication in...
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     8–11. Retrieved 16 September 2019. Liebig, Justus von; Poggendorff, J.C.; Wöhler, Fr. (eds.) (1842), Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie [Dictionary...
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    Metabolism (redirect from Metabolic process)
    of the cells." This discovery, along with the publication by Friedrich Wöhler in 1828 of a paper on the chemical synthesis of urea, and is notable for...
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    Friedrich Wöhler synthesized oxalic acid, a compound known to occur only in living organisms, from cyanogen. A further experiment was Wöhler's 1828 synthesis...
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    formulas for urea and ammonium cyanate are identical (see Wöhler synthesis). In 1832, Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig discovered and explained functional...
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    Pedemontanus (1560) and Blaise de Vigenère (1596). Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler determined the composition of benzoic acid. These latter also investigated...
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    Hydroxylamine and ammonium carbonate, in the Raschig process Urea, in the Bosch–Meiser urea process and in Wöhler synthesis ammonium perchlorate, ammonium nitrate...
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  • Charlard, two French chemists, produced benzaldehyde. In 1832, Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig first synthesized benzaldehyde. As of 1999, 7000 tonnes...
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    called it "l'acide allantoique". In 1837, the German chemists Friedrich Wöhler and Justus Liebig synthesized it from uric acid and renamed it "allantoïn"...
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    Vanadium (redirect from Vanadium processing)
    oxide he found while working with iron ores. Later that year, Friedrich Wöhler confirmed that this element was identical to that found by del Río and hence...
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    and other mercury compounds. This reaction was discovered by Friedrich Wöhler in 1821, soon after the first synthesis of mercury thiocyanate. It was described...
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