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    Claude Louis Berthollet (French pronunciation: [klod lwi bɛʁtɔlɛ], 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president...
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  • + CO2↑ The concept of a reversible reaction was introduced by Claude Louis Berthollet in 1803, after he had observed the formation of sodium carbonate...
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    science. In chemistry it was the time of Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Berthollet, Louis Guyton de Morveau, Antoine-François Fourcroy and Joseph Gay-Lussac...
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    became known popularly as prussic acid. In 1787, the French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet showed that prussic acid did not contain oxygen, an important contribution...
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    Louis 1788 publication entitled Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique, published with colleagues Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Claude Louis Berthollet,...
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    player Claude Lorius (1932–2023), French glaciologist Claude Lorrain (died 1682), French painter, droughts-man and etcher Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822)...
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    mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon de Laplace, the chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, the composers Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, André Grétry, Chevalier...
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  • a euphemism for suicide by burning charcoals. Amédée Berthollet, son of Claude Louis Berthollet, supposedly died by this method in 1811. The suicide method...
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  • summer weekends between 1806 and 1822 at the country houses of Claude Louis Berthollet and Pierre Simon Laplace at Arcueil, then a village 3 miles south...
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    in the monotypic genus Bertholletia, named after French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet. The Brazil nut is native to the Guianas, Venezuela, Brazil, eastern...
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    1745–1827 Jacques Charles, 1746–1823 Claude Louis Berthollet, 1748–1822 Amedeo Avogadro, 1776–1856 Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, 1778–1850 Humphry Davy, 1778–1829...
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    Berzelius traveled to France to work in the chemical laboratories of Claude Louis Berthollet. In 1835, at the age of 56, he married Elizabeth Poppius, the 24-year-old...
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    when oxidized with nitric acid. In 1786, the French scientists Claude Louis Berthollet, Gaspard Monge and C. A. Vandermonde confirmed that graphite was...
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    dispute some of Claude Louis Berthollet's theoretical views regarding the composition of the metallic oxides, and he also showed Berthollet's "zoonic acid"...
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  • opposed by other chemists, most notably Proust's fellow Frenchman Claude Louis Berthollet, who argued that the elements could combine in any proportion....
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    13 – William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d. 1811) December 9 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822) December 14 – William Cavendish, 5th...
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  • KCl + KOCl + H2O This is the traditional method, first used by Claude Louis Berthollet in 1789. Another production method is electrolysis of potassium...
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    was termed by him 'alkaline air'. Eleven years later in 1785, Claude Louis Berthollet ascertained its composition. The production of ammonia from nitrogen...
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    (1712–1778), writer and philosopher, spent some time in Annecy. Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), physician and chemist, began medical studies locally...
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    the hands. Potassium hypochlorite was first produced in 1789 by Claude Louis Berthollet in his laboratory on the Quai de Javel in Paris, France, by passing...
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  • Bibcode:1828AnP....89..577W. doi:10.1002/andp.18280890805. Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas (1798). "Memoir on a New Metallic Acid which exists in the Red Lead...
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    and other scholars, including Gaspard Monge, Joseph Fourier, and Claude Louis Berthollet. Drawings and paintings of their findings are found in the collections...
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    structures of the Abbey were built in 1681. The famous chemist Claude Louis Berthollet was born in Talloires, then part of the Duchy of Savoy, in 1749...
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    Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Jean-Charles de Borda, and Pierre-Simon Laplace; the botanist René Louiche Desfontaines, the chemists Claude Louis Berthollet, Antoine...
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    Retrieved 25 July 2016. Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard; Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent; Berthollet, Claude-Louis; Fourcroy, Antoine-François de (1787). Méthode...
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    Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (b. 1749) November 6 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748) November 24 – Zofia Potocka, Greek-Polish...
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    chemistry. In late 1786, while in Paris, he witnessed an experiment by Claude Louis Berthollet in which he reacted hydrochloric acid with manganese dioxide to...
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  • 1, pp 35–152. Quote from excerpt of Georges Cuvier's eulogy of Claude-Louis Berthollet, p 35. Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius...
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  • would exceed supply in the near future. Following the work by Claude Louis Berthollet published in 1784, chemists knew ammonia to be a nitrogen compound...
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  • Laura Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1818) 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (d. 1822) 1752 – Antoine Étienne de...
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