Wollaston

[ wool-uh-stuhn ]

noun

1. William Hyde, 1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.

Wollaston

/ wl′ə-stən /

1. British chemist and physicist who discovered the elements palladium (1803) and rhodium (1804). In 1805 he devised a process for producing malleable platinum that could be used to make various utensils and apparatus. Wollaston was also one of the first scientists to realize that the arrangement of atoms in a molecule must be three-dimensional.

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Mr. Linthorn intends to request Dr. Wollaston to accompany you, any day convenient to you.

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It was this attention to minute phenomena which Dr. Wollaston applied with such powerful effect to chemistry.

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Wollaston and I spent most of the afternoon pottering round and collecting seeds of plants of different kinds.

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With this camera Mr. Wollaston secured some of the finest pictures taken on the Expedition.

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They had their eye on a little place out of town, out Wollaston way, and Pinney was going to try to get hold of it.

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