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    Johan Gottlieb Gahn (19 August 1745 – 8 December 1818) was a Swedish chemist and metallurgist who isolated manganese in 1774. Gahn studied in Uppsala from...
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  • Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818), chemist and mineralogist who discovered manganese in 1774, and after whom the mineral gahnite was named. Henrik Gahn...
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    mine, Falun, Dalarna, Sweden, and named after the Swedish chemist, Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818), the discoverer of the element manganese. It is sometimes...
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  • manganese metal several years before the better known synthesis of Johan Gottlieb Gahn in 1774. Fasold, H.; Dehnicke, K.; Fuchs, O.; König, K. -H.; Gail...
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    pyrolusite (mineral form of manganese dioxide) contained a new element. Johan Gottlieb Gahn isolated an impure sample of manganese metal in 1774, which he did...
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    element in 1774, but could not isolate barium, only barium oxide. Johan Gottlieb Gahn also isolated barium oxide two years later in similar studies. Barium...
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    Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856) William Fyfe (1927–2013) Johan Gadolin (1760–1852) Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818) – developed blowpipe technique for identifying...
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    meaning "Moon") was discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Johan Gottlieb Gahn. Both chemists owned a chemistry plant near Gripsholm, Sweden, producing...
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    element in 1772, but could not isolate barium, only barium oxide. Johan Gottlieb Gahn also isolated barium oxide two years later in similar studies. Oxidized...
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    to its unusually pure white color. The name was first applied by Johan Gottlieb Gahn and Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1815. It is a relatively common and important...
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    students, including Gadolin, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, and Carl Wilhelm Scheele, became close friends. Library resources about Johan Gadolin Resources in your...
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    after Scheele analyzed a reaction which Bergman and his assistant, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, could not resolve. The reaction was between melted saltpetre and...
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    Antoine Lavoisier recognized phosphorus as an element in 1777 after Johan Gottlieb Gahn and Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in 1769, showed that calcium phosphate...
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    barium oxide. Barium oxide was isolated again two years later by Johan Gottlieb Gahn. Later in the 18th century, William Withering noticed a heavy mineral...
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    1788). Bergman's assistant, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, is credited with improving the design and application of the blowpipe. Gahn travelled with a portable blowpipe...
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    discovery.: 558  Nils Gabriel Sefström, discoverer of vanadium, and Johan Gottlieb Gahn, discoverer of manganese, both lived in Falun at certain points in...
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    Science, Sweden Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709–1785), chemist and mineralogist Torbern Bergman (1735–1784), chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818), mineralogist...
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    painter, author, and neo-classical architect (died 1800) August 19 - Johan Gottlieb Gahn, chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese (died 1817) September...
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    Allmänna BB, is opened in the capital. Manganese is isolated by Johan Gottlieb Gahn. The manufacture of brännvin are taken over by the state, but the...
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  • cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) Gahnite: ZnAl2O4 – Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818) Gatehouseite: Mn2+5(PO4)2(OH)4 – crystal chemist Bryan...
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    July - Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, poet (born 1750) December 1 - Carl Frederik von Breda, painter (born 1759) December 8 - Johan Gottlieb Gahn, chemist...
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  • fertilizer. They include: Johann Tholde, a school principal from Brno; Johan Gottlieb Gahn; Carl Wilhelm Scheele; Anders Gustaf Ekeberg; A. Bergsteen; Louis-Nicolas...
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    pathological liar'". Los Angeles Times. "Dems send letter probing Kelly, McGahn over Porter allegations". The Hill. February 9, 2018. "Sen. Sanders: Trump...
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  • Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio, Count 338 Pinel, Philippe 339 Gahn, Johann Gottlieb 340 Monge, Gaspard 341 Piazzi, Giuseppe 342 Hjelm, Peter Jacob 343...
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    Gagnepainia François Gagnepain (1866–1952) Zingiberaceae Qu Gahnia Henrik Gahn (1747–1816), Swedish naval doctor and botanist; student of Carl Linnaeus...
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