biography
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Berthollet, Claude Louis, comte (Count)
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pronunciation:
[bairtolay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1748–1822)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Talloires, E France. He studied at Turin, moving to Paris in 1772. He aided Antoine Lavoisier in his research into gunpowder and in forming the new chemical nomenclature. In 1785 he showed the value of chlorine for bleaching, and showed ammonia to be a compound of hydrogen and nitrogen. He was made a senator and a count by Napoleon, yet voted for his deposition in 1814, and on the Bourbon restoration was created a peer. |
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