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- British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
How To Use Joseph Black In A Sentence
- These included: changes to British patent laws which provided effective protection for those who came up with money-earning ideas; philosopher John Locke's arguments that man has rights to property where labour had been added; pioneering work on early steam engines by Savery, Newcomen and Papin; the discovery of latent heat by Watt's Glasgow University friend Joseph Black; and the ability to make industrial devices of real precision. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention by William Rosen
- From 1754 he took up farming but maintained his scientific interests, being on close terms with Joseph Black.
- He derived the name from the mineral called alumina, which itself had only been named in English by the chemist Joseph Black in 1790.