biography
| name: |
Glauber, Johann Rudolph
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pronunciation:
[glowber]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1604–68)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Karlstadt, SC Germany. He settled in Holland, where he lived through selling medical and other substances. In 1648 he discovered hydrochloric acid, and was probably the first to produce nitric acid. He also discovered Glauber's salt (sodium sulphate), the therapeutic virtues of which he greatly exaggerated. |
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