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    Jean Baptiste André Dumas (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ɑ̃dʁe dyma]; 14 July 1800 – 10 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works...
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  • chemical substances based on a method first described by Jean-Baptiste Dumas in 1826. The Dumas technique has been automated and instrumentalized, so that...
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  • Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, French blackfriar and botanist Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist, best known for his works...
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    public lecture describing his or her work. Source: RSC 1869 (1869): Jean-Baptiste Dumas 1872 (1872): Stanislao Cannizzaro 1875 (1875): August Wilhelm von...
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  • 16 Å. Acetonitrile was first prepared in 1847 by the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas. Acetonitrile is used mainly as a solvent in the purification of...
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    He also attended classes at the Lycée Saint-Louis and lectures of Jean-Baptiste Dumas at the Sorbonne. In 1843, he passed the test with a high ranking...
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  • variety of fuel applications. Dimethyl ether was first synthesised by Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Péligot in 1835 by distillation of methanol and sulfuric...
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    Cousin (1792–1867), a French philosopher, founded "eclecticism". Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), a French chemist, worked on organic analysis and synthesis...
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    businessman Alphonse Lavallée, by Péclet, and by two other scientists, Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Théodore Olivier. His salary was then 3000 Francs per year, plus...
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    elements, because he thought this only existed in organic compounds. Jean-Baptiste Dumas used the terms "physical atoms" and "chemical atoms"; a "physical...
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  • enabled chemistry to become a quantitative science. French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–84) became one of the more influential opponents of atomic...
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    Lavoisier, Alessandro Volta, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Pierre Duhem, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Alois Alzheimer, Georgius Agricola and Christian Doppler. Contents...
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  • general Gustave Dumas (1872–1955), Swiss mathematician Henry Dumas (1934–1968), African-American poet and author Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French...
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  • ((CN)2) not realizing that cyanogen is the cyanide dimer NC-CN. Jean-Baptiste Dumas proposed the ethylene radical from investigations into diethyl ether...
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    scientific experimentation on a field basis). He collaborated with Jean Baptiste Dumas in writing an Essai de statique chimique des litres organists (1841)...
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    called trichloroacetates. Trichloroacetic acid was discovered by Jean-Baptiste Dumas in 1830. It is prepared by the reaction of chlorine with acetic acid...
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    and Alfred Nobel), treated paper and cardboard in the same way. Jean-Baptiste Dumas obtained a similar material, which he called nitramidine. Around...
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  • principles; and of composing such bodies from those principles. In 1837, Jean-Baptiste Dumas considered the word "chemistry" to refer to the science concerned...
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    different from cane sugar (sucrose). Glucose is the term coined by Jean Baptiste Dumas in 1838, which has prevailed in the chemical literature. Friedrich...
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  • {101.325\ kPa} }}\approx \mathrm {22.414\ L/mol} } First used by Jean-Baptiste Dumas in 1826. First used by Stanislao Cannizzaro in 1858. "Avogadro's...
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    continued to devastate silk production in the country. In 1865, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, France's Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, asked Louis Pasteur...
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  • that upon detonation the gas formed was primarily nitrogen gas. Jean Baptiste Dumas went further and found that in addition to gold and nitrogen, fulminating...
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    compound to be discovered when it was synthesized by French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugène-Melchior Péligot in 1835 by distilling dimethyl sulfate...
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    Germany, chloroform was named and chemically characterized in 1834 by Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884). In 1842, Dr Robert Mortimer Glover in London discovered...
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    dean. In 1855, under the Second French Empire, the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas obtained the creation of the first laboratory of the faculty devoted...
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    of the French Academy of Sciences reviewed Payen's findings in : Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1839) "Rapport sur un mémoire de M. Payen, reltes rendus, vol. 8...
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    went to Paris with introductions from Liebig. In Paris, he attended Jean Baptiste Dumas’ lectures and worked with Auguste Cahours (1813–1891) on essential...
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    carboazotique). Picric acid was given that name by the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas in 1841. Its synthesis from phenol, and the correct determination...
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    chemistry at the Institut National Agronomique. He collaborated with Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and together they discovered the methyl radical during experiments...
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    Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɔklɛ̃]; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (UK: /ˈmɒliɛər, ˈmoʊl-/...
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