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chemists reenactments of historical reactions

symboom - 3-5-2018 at 23:13

These are the chemicals i hace made the same way as famous chemists of the past
Whats yours


Humphry Davy
Copper peroxide
Sodium


Birkeland–Eyde process
Kristian Birkeland and Sam Eyde in 1903,


Antoine Lavoisier. 1743
oxygen


Henry Cavendish
hydrogen.

Joseph Priestley,
hydrochloric acid
Nitrous oxide,
sulfur dioxide

From this list it looks like i am
Following in the footsteps of
Humphry Davy


Further thoughts


1786)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. He was the first to discover the adsorption of gases by charcoal. He also has the discovery of various chemical elements and compounds, including manganese, chlorine, tartaric acid, glycerin, molybdenum, barium, and lactic acid, to his name. Today, he is mostly remembered for the discovery of 'oxygen' in the air. Publication of his work was delayed by 2 years. That lead John Priestley to be recognized as the discoverer of oxygen, as his works were published earlier. Today, there is no doubt that Scheele has independently


He got no fear
Henri Moissan (1852 - 1907)
Henri Moissan was a French chemist, who is best known for his work of isolating fluorine from its compounds. He also received the Nobel prize for this work in 1906.


I hope this post os inspiring especially when you realize you are replicating experiments of the past


[Edited on 4-5-2018 by symboom]

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