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- Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786)
How To Use Scheele In A Sentence
- Scheele produced chlorine by treating the mineral pyrolusite with hydrochloric acid (HCl).
- Molybdenum was discovered by the Swedish scientist, Peter Hjelm in 1781, three years after Carl Scheele proposed that a previously unknown element could be found in the mineral molybdenite. Molybdenum
- (As an aside, the mineral scheelite (Ca (WO4, MoO4), calcium tungstate-molybdate) was named after Scheele in honor of his discovery of molybdenum.) Molybdenum
- The press release for Professor Andy Meharg's book Venomous Earth, "scientific, cultural and political history of arsenic", mentions further arsenical anecdotes such as the Madeleine Smith case, William Morris wallpapers, and the origin of a long-standing Scottish prejudice against green sweets (a fondness of traders in 19th century Greenock for the toxic Scheele's Green - copper arsenite - as a food dye in confectionery). Arsenic
- Even since 1776 when Scheele found uric acid in urinary calculus, several substances closely related to it such as xanthine, adenine and guanine, etc. have been detected in animal secretions. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902 - Presentation Speech
- = -- These are arsenite of potash (Fowler's solution), cacodylate of sodium, and arsenite of copper (Scheele's green), the last frequently used for colouring dresses and wall-papers. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- He diagrammed it on a piece of paper, then shared it with Nick Scheele and Jim Padilla.
- Scheele described the chlorine gas formed as having a greenish yellow color and a suffocating odor ‘most oppressive to the lungs.’
- (As an aside, the mineral scheelite (Ca (WO4, MoO4), calcium tungstate-molybdate) was named after Scheele in honor of his discovery of molybdenum.) Molybdenum
- Scheele then poured sulfuric acid into one end and into the other end chlorate of potash or picric acid or some other flammable chemical. Chad Millman: Bottle Bombs: It's 1916 all over Again