NOUN
- German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868)
How To Use Schonbein In A Sentence
- Working in the professor's private laboratory Gladstone produced, first, a report on the analysis of sand from a Normandy beach, and then in 1847 a paper on the explosive guncotton, just a year after its discovery by Christian Schönbein.
- Runge, Schönbein, and Goppelsroeder, had used filter paper for a kind of chromatographic analysis, while Tsvett and many of his successors used mainly tubes packed with various finely powdered, active substances for separations. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 - Presentation Speech