Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German: [ˈʃeːlə], Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a German Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered...
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substance was only recognised around 1630 by Jan Baptist van Helmont. Carl Wilhelm Scheele wrote a description of chlorine gas in 1774, supposing it to be an...
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3. It is chemically related to Paris green. Scheele's green was invented in 1775 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. By the end of the 19th century, it had virtually...
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Scheele is a surname of Germanic origin. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist...
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pharmacists. The award is given to commemorate the pharmacist and chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) and has been appointed since 1961, in the beginning annually...
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commonly believed that the element was discovered independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire...
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Antonio Vallisneri. Lactose was identified as a sugar in 1780 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. In 1812, Heinrich Vogel (1778–1867) recognized that glucose was...
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of the stomata. Malic acid was first isolated from apple juice by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1785. Antoine Lavoisier in 1787 proposed the name acide malique...
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a new entity from the mineral salts of other metals) in 1778 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. The metal was first isolated in 1781 by Peter Jacob Hjelm. Molybdenum...
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Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772 and independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Henry Cavendish at about the same time. The name nitrogène was...
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Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786). This was a result of Scheele's work studying fluorite and hydrofluoric acid. Scheele may have been the...
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and in the form of nitrite (NO− 2) salts. It was discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it "phlogisticated acid of niter". Nitrous acid is used...
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Fire air (category Carl Wilhelm Scheele)
This theory was positioned in 1775 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.[1] In Scheele's Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire he states: "air is composed...
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Swedish chemists Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern Olof Bergman produced oxalic acid by reacting sugar with concentrated nitric acid; Scheele called the acid...
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attributed the effect to its viscous nature. In 1777, the chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele was studying the more intrinsically light-sensitive silver chloride...
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to 1770 and became acquainted with chemists Torbern Bergman and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 1770 he settled in Falun, where he introduced improvements in copper...
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Scheele are several low ridges projecting above the surface of the lunar mare, the Dorsa Ewing. This crater was named after the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm...
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only 4 °C above its melting point. It was first prepared in 1771 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele by dissolving silica in hydrofluoric acid, and later synthesized...
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granted him the Scheele Award, which commemorates the skills and achievements of the Swedish Pomerania chemist and pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Hofmann,...
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molybdenum in 1781, four years after its discovery by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Working with Molybdic acid, Hjelm chemically reduced molybdenum...
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Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, described by A. Rupert Hall; the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley...
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tungsten (wolfram). Scheelite is originally named after Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786). Well-formed crystals are sought by collectors and are...
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with electricity in his spare time. After reading an article by Carl Wilhelm Scheele on the behaviour of the cyanides of gold and silver in a solution...
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1781, Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered that a new acid, tungstic acid, could be made from Cronstedt's scheelite (at the time named tungsten). Scheele and...
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having a characteristic foul odor of rotten eggs. Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele is credited with having discovered the chemical composition of purified...
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Salts of tungstic acid are tungstates. The acid was discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1781. Tungstic acid is obtained by the action of strong acids...
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and in the late eighteenth century, the German Swedish scientist Carl Wilhelm Scheele found new copper greens. Issue awareness Teal is the color of ovarian...
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was grown. Citric acid was first isolated in 1784 by the chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who crystallized it from lemon juice. Industrial-scale citric acid...
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process for extraction was developed in 1769 by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Tartaric acid played an important role in the discovery of chemical...
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discovers urea. Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley independently isolate oxygen, called by Priestley "dephlogisticated air" and Scheele "fire air"....
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