Wollaston

[ wool-uh-stuhn ]

/ ˈwʊl ə stən /

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noun

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

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How to use Wollaston in a sentence

Mr. Linthorn intends to request Dr. Wollaston to accompany you, any day convenient to you.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
It was this attention to minute phenomena which Dr. Wollaston applied with such powerful effect to chemistry.
Decline of Science in England|Charles Babbage
Wollaston and I spent most of the afternoon pottering round and collecting seeds of plants of different kinds.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
With this camera Mr. Wollaston secured some of the finest pictures taken on the Expedition.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

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.
The Quality of Mercy|W. D. Howells

Scientific definitions for Wollaston

Wollaston

[ wul′ə-stən ]

William Hyde 1766-1828

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.