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    Claude Louis Berthollet (French pronunciation: [klod lwi bɛʁtɔlɛ], 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president...
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    became known popularly as prussic acid. In 1787, the French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet showed that prussic acid did not contain oxygen, an important contribution...
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    electrical engineering Claude Berry (1880–1974), American baseball player Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist Claude Bertin (1653–1705),...
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  • CO2↑ + H2O The concept of a reversible reaction was introduced by Claude Louis Berthollet in 1803, after he had observed the formation of sodium carbonate...
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    science. In chemistry it was the time of Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Berthollet, Louis Guyton de Morveau, Antoine-François Fourcroy and Joseph Gay-Lussac...
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  • summer weekends between 1806 and 1822 at the country houses of Claude Louis Berthollet and Pierre Simon Laplace at Arcueil, then a village 3 miles south...
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  • a euphemism for suicide by burning charcoals. Amédée Berthollet son of Claude Louis Berthollet, supposedly died by this method in 1811. The suicide method...
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    Louis 1788 publication entitled Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique, published with colleagues Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Claude Louis Berthollet,...
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    in the monotypic genus Bertholletia, named after French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet. The Brazil nut is native to the Guianas, Venezuela, Brazil, eastern...
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    1745–1827 Jacques Charles, 1746–1823 Claude Louis Berthollet, 1748–1822 Amedeo Avogadro, 1776–1856 Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, 1778–1850 Humphry Davy, 1778–1829...
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