biography
| name: |
Thenard, Louis Jacques
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pronunciation:
[tenah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1777–1857)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in La Louptière, France. He studied pharmacy at Paris, and became professor at the Collège de France. He was made a baron in 1825, and appointed Chancellor of the University of Paris. He discovered sodium and potassium peroxides, the pigment Thenard's blue (used for colouring porcelain), and proved that caustic soda and potash contain hydrogen. He was closely associated with Gay-Lussac, and wrote a once-standard work on chemistry. |
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