Ostwald

[ awst-vahlt ]

noun

1. Wil·helm [vil, -helm], 1853–1932, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1909.

Ostwald

/ ˈɔstvalt /

noun

1. OstwaldWilhelm18531932MGermanSCIENCE: chemist Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1853–1932, German chemist, noted for his pioneering work in catalysis. He also invented a process for making nitric acid from ammonia and developed a new theory of colour: Nobel prize for chemistry 1909

Example Sentences

According to modern ideas, no true miscibility exists, but a suspension or emulsion is formed (see Ostwald, p. 237).

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Ostwald's Kolloidchemie, 1909, and the references given by Noyes, loc.

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Haeckel, Ostwald, and Mach have each given the world a constructive system of thought.

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It has been stated by Professor Ostwald that tubes when reared up on end tend to bend permanently.

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But Ostwald would deprive substance of the attribute of matter altogether, and boasts of his Refutation of Materialism .

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