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Ostwald

[ US /ˈɑstwəɫd/ ]
NOUN
  1. German chemist (1853-1932)

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  • Mach, like Ostwald, also denied the pre-eminence of mechanical explanation.
  • Ostwald, who would replace what he terms a mechanical theory of the universe by an "energetical" theory, and would dwell exclusively on energy as opposed to its vehicles. A Librarian's Open Shelf
  • The market is chasing yields up and pushing Ireland in the direction of international bailout assistance," Marc Ostwald, a bond strategist at Monument Securities in London said.
  • Early work in colloid chemistry had also been carried out by Wolfgang Ostwald, son of the 1909 Laureate Wilhelm Ostwald, but this was not of a caliber earning him a Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
  • Likewise, in thermochemistry, one has always stuck to the thermal effect, that is, to energy differences, until Wilhelm Ostwald in particular emphatically showed that many detailed considerations could be significantly abbreviated if one dealt with energy itself instead of with calorimetric numbers. Max Planck - Nobel Lecture
  • A lot of the euro zone moves we have had, you would hardly be saying they were ahead of the game," said Marc Ostwald, fixed income strategist at Monument Securities.
  • After Arrhenius had formulated his well-known theory that acids and bases in aqueous solution are separated into ions and that their strength depends on their electrical conductivity, or more accurately, on their degree of dissociation, Ostwald tested the correctness of this view by measuring the conductivity and hence the concentration of the hydrogen and hydroxyl ions with the acids and bases which he had used in his previous experiments. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 - Presentation Speech
  • Like Ostwald, Soddy believed economic progress was made possible by the transition from direct solar energy to successive masteries of nonrenewable stores of fossil fuels. Biophysical economics
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