Schönbein
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Gun cotton was brought into public notice by some experiments by its inventor, Professor Schönbein, of Basel, before the chairman of the East India Company, and a number of scientists.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John
Direct experiments with the Schönbein ozonometer and the psychrometer gave parallel curves; whence the author regards the former as only a crude hygrometer.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
Schönbein discovered ozone, thanks to the phosphorous odor of air traversed by electric sparks.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
Schönbein, however, made his explosive from purified cotton, steeped in a mixture of equal parts of p. 300nitric and sulphuric acids, which when carefully washed, and dried, kept its appearance of cotton wool.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John
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