Moissan
Americannoun
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Prof. Moissan, of the Sorbonne?The electric furnace, foundation of electric metallurgical industries.
From Time Magazine Archive
M. Moissan now employs electrodes of pure platinum instead of irido-platinum, and the interior end of each is thickened into a club shape in order the longer to withstand corrosion.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
The study of diamonds led Moissan to believe that in nature they are formed by the cooling of a melted mixture of iron and carbon.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
An important paper is contributed by M. Moissan to the current number of the Comptes Rendus, describing two interesting new compounds containing boron, phosphorus, and iodine.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various
The Trait� de chimie min�rale, edited by H. Moissan, and the Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, edited by Abegg, are of the same type.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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