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    Carl Auer von Welsbach (1 September 1858 – 4 August 1929), who received the Austrian noble title of Freiherr Auer von Welsbach in 1901, was an Austrian...
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  • Auer von Welsbach: Alois Auer, Ritter von Welsbach Carl Auer, Freiherr (Baron) von Welsbach, son of Alois Auer (surname) Auer (disambiguation) Welsbach...
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    knighthood that he was given in 1860, was Alois Ritter Auer von Welsbach. Born in the Austrian city of Wels, Auer was trained as a compositor. In his leisure moments...
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  • Welsbach is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alois Auer Ritter von Welsbach(an inventor/polymath) Carl Auer von Welsbach(a scientist...
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    French scientist Georges Urbain, Austrian mineralogist Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, and American chemist Charles James. All of these researchers found...
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    element "lutecium" (now lutetium) was extracted by Georges Urbain, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Charles James. After some discussion, Marignac's name "ytterbium"...
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    Gas mantle (redirect from Welsbach mantle)
    1883. The modern gas mantle was one of the many inventions of Carl Auer von Welsbach, a chemist who studied rare-earth elements in the 1880s and who had...
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    elements. Neodymium was discovered in 1885 by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach, who also discovered praseodymium. It is present in significant quantities...
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    development of ferrocerium (often misidentified as flint) by Carl Auer von Welsbach in 1903 has made modern lighters possible. When scratched, it produces...
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    Auer von Welsbach was investigating. The pyrophoric effect is dependent on the brittleness of the alloy and its low autoignition temperature. In Auer...
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