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    Edmond Frémy (French: [fremi]; 28 February 1814 – 3 February 1894) was a French chemist. He is perhaps best known today for Frémy's salt, a strong oxidizing...
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    MnO2 + 2 H2O 2 ON(SO 3)2− 2 + 4 K+ → K4[ON(SO3)2]2 Frémy's salt was discovered in 1845 by Edmond Frémy (1814–1894). Its use in organic synthesis was popularized...
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    corundum, including the Verneuil method and the flux method pioneered by Edmond Frémy. It is widely used as an inexpensive cut gem in birthstone jewelry for...
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    out determinations of the atomic weights of several elements, and with Edmond Frémy, published Traité de chimie générale (1847–1850); Abrégé de chimie (1848);...
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    kernel oil, coconut oil, and milk fat. Palmitic acid was discovered by Edmond Frémy (in 1840) in the saponification of palm oil, which process remains today...
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    He decided to study chemistry and began first in the laboratory of Edmond Frémy at the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, and later in that of Pierre Paul Dehérain...
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    acid had been known in the glass industry before then. French chemist Edmond Frémy (1814–1894) is credited with discovering hydrogen fluoride (HF) while...
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    In 1877, Edmond Frémy and industrial glass-maker Charles Feil made crystal corundum from which small stones could be cut. In 1887, Fremy and Auguste...
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    by Edmond Frémy, the prominent specialist of that period regarding the chemical study of the brain and a member of the Académie des Sciences; Frémy's views...
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    (saltpetre) and iron powder dissolved in water to give a purple solution. Edmond Frémy (1814 – 1894) later discovered that fusion of potassium hydroxide and...
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    répétiteur in 1817–? Jules Pelouze (1807–1867), répétiteur in 1831–1837? Edmond Frémy (1814–1894) Henri-Victor Regnault (1810–1878) Justus Liebig (1803–1873)...
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    alumina (aluminium oxide) in a laboratory in 1837. By 1877, chemist Edmond Frémy had devised an effective method for commercial ruby manufacture by using...
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    complex that obeys the 18e rule. The compound was first reported by Edmond Frémy in 1844. Potassium osmate is prepared by reducing osmium tetroxide with...
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    were damaged. He then shifted to (unsuccessful) chemical reactions. Edmond Frémy thought that passing electric current through pure hydrofluoric acid...
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    fluoride, as well as the lack of a simple and suitable electrolyte. Edmond Frémy postulated that electrolysis of pure hydrogen fluoride to generate fluorine...
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  • form of metronome in Amsterdam. Copley Medal: James Ivory February 28 – Edmond Frémy, French chemist (died 1894). April 20 – Filippo de Filippi, Italian zoologist...
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  • Stephen Perry patents the rubber band in England. Edmond Frémy discovers the oxidizing agent Frémy's salt. August – John Franklin's expedition with HMS...
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    an etchant as well as in cleaning products. The salt was prepared by Edmond Frémy by treating potassium carbonate or potassium hydroxide with hydrofluoric...
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  • January 1 – Heinrich Hertz (born 1857), German physicist. February 3 – Edmond Frémy (born 1814), French chemist. March 29 – Georges Pouchet (born 1833),...
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    Antoine Jérôme Balard Auguste André Thomas Cahours Charles Adolphe Wurtz Edmond Frémy Eugéne-Melchior Péligot Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville Henri Victor...
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    (the philatelists' tribune). First published on 15 November 1887 by Edmond Frémy, a philatelist of Douai in Northern France. In 1890, his health forced...
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  • la timbrologie, a philatelic bulletin written by Edmond Frémy of Douai. Suffering an illness, Frémy gave away his bulletin to Tellier in 1890. At the...
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    1856. He was the son of a watchmaker-mechanic. When he was 17, chemist Edmond Frémy accepted him as a laboratory assistant. He received his bachelor's degree...
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    1863–1879: Michel Eugène Chevreul 1879–1891: Edmond Frémy 1891–1900: Alphonse Milne-Edwards 1900–1919: Edmond Perrier 1919–1931: Louis Mangin 1932–1936:...
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    medicine, she spent four years at the Museum of Natural History under Edmond Frémy and three years in the laboratory of Charles Adolphe Wurtz where she...
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  • – Armand Gautier, painter and lithographer (born 1825) 3 February – Edmond Frémy, chemist (born 1814) 6 February – Maria Deraismes, author and pioneer...
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    professor at the Collège Chaptal. He obtained his LSc degree in 1856 under Edmond Frémy. Later on, he taught classes in agricultural chemistry at the agricultural...
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  • and trace elements Bertrand's rule Scientific career Institutions Institut Pasteur Doctoral advisor Émile Duclaux Other academic advisors Edmond Frémy...
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  • Compounds. Chemistry as Applied to Inorganic Compounds 1850 to 1892: Edmond Frémy. This chair was removed. Plants in the Countryside (literal translation)...
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  • Sainte-Claire Deville, geologist and meteorologist (died 1876) 28 February - Edmond Frémy, chemist (died 1894) 19 April - Louis Amédée Achard, novelist (died 1875)...
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