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    Friedrich Wöhler (German: [ˈvøːlɐ]) FRS(For) HonFRSE (31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic...
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  • The Wöhler synthesis is the conversion of ammonium cyanate into urea. This chemical reaction was described in 1828 by Friedrich Wöhler. It is often cited...
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  • explosive compound silver fulminate. In 1825 he read a paper written by Friedrich Wöhler in which he describes a compound called silver cyanate, made in equal...
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  • and is an important raw material for the chemical industry. In 1828, Friedrich Wöhler discovered that urea can be produced from inorganic starting materials...
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    physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, whose work was extended by German chemist Friedrich Wöhler. Aluminum was difficult to refine and thus uncommon in actual use....
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    benzoin condensation was first reported in 1832 by Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler during their research on bitter almond oil. The catalytic version of...
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    report, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler transliterated "ethyl" as "Aethyl". (See: Jöns Jacob Berzelius with Friedrich Wöhler, trans., Jahresbericht über...
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    formed sweet salts. The name "beryllium" was first used by Wöhler in 1828. Friedrich Wöhler and Antoine Bussy independently isolated beryllium in 1828...
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    referred to as hydroquinones. The name "hydroquinone" was coined by Friedrich Wöhler in 1843. In 2021, it was the 282nd most commonly prescribed medication...
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    formulas for urea and ammonium cyanate are identical (see Wöhler synthesis). In 1832, Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig discovered and explained functional...
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    between Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig, who both studied a silver salt of the same composition but had different properties. Wöhler studied silver...
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    placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Wöhler. "Wöhler (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research...
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    – George Bradshaw, English timetable publisher (d. 1853) July 31 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882) August 12 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist...
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    Mulder, Claude Louis Berthollet, Humphry Davy, Friedrich Wöhler, Eilhard Mitscherlich and Christian Friedrich Schönbein. In 1812, Berzelius traveled to London...
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    things. This was disproved in 1828, when Friedrich Wöhler prepared urea from inorganic materials. This Wöhler synthesis is considered the starting point...
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    (−C≡N+−O−). Isocyanic acid was discovered in 1830 by Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler. Isocyanic acid is the simplest stable chemical compound that contains...
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    sources), producing new compounds, without "vital force". In 1828 Friedrich Wöhler produced the organic chemical urea (carbamide), a constituent of urine...
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    that only living beings could produce the molecules of life. In 1828, Friedrich Wöhler published a paper on his serendipitous urea synthesis from potassium...
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    allantois; he called it "l'acide allantoique". In 1837, the German chemists Friedrich Wöhler and Justus Liebig synthesized it from uric acid and renamed it "allantoïn"...
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    Göttingen in the spring of 1838 in order to study with the famous chemist Friedrich Wöhler. In 1842, he became an assistant to Robert Bunsen at the Philipps-Universität...
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    when Friedrich Wöhler synthesized oxalic acid, a compound known to occur only in living organisms, from cyanogen. A further experiment was Wöhler's 1828...
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  • Boutron Charlard, two French chemists, produced benzaldehyde. In 1832, Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig first synthesized benzaldehyde. As of 1999, 7000...
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    constant temperature and pressure contain equal number of molecules. 1825 Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig perform the first confirmed discovery and explanation...
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    student of Friedrich Wöhler in Göttingen. He completed his dissertation (Über einige Naphthyl- und Phenylderivate) also supervised by Wöhler in 1857. In...
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    putrefaction of the cells." This discovery, along with the publication by Friedrich Wöhler in 1828 of a paper on the chemical synthesis of urea, and is notable...
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  • purity. He published a description in the journal Archiv der Pharmazie. Friedrich Wöhler, Ordinary Professor of Chemistry at Göttingen University, had coca...
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  • Wöhler may refer to: People August Wöhler (1819–1914), German engineer Cordula Wöhler (1845–1916), German writer and hymnwriter Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882)...
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    sodium, the manufacture of which he also developed. Together with Friedrich Wöhler, he discovered silicon nitride in 1857. With Jules Henri Debray (1827–1888)...
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  • materials could not be synthesized from inorganic components, but Friedrich Wöhler synthesised urea from inorganic components in 1828. However, contemporary...
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    water, producing acetylene and calcium hydroxide, was discovered by Friedrich Wöhler in 1862. CaC2(s) + 2H2O(l) → C2H2(g) + Ca(OH)2(aq) This reaction was...
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