biography
pronunciation:
[ah(r)gã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1755–1803)
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| biography:
| Physicist and chemist, born in Geneva, SW Switzerland. He lived for a time in England, where in 1784 he invented the Argand burner, the first scientifically designed oil lamp, which came to be used in lighthouses. |
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