Wollaston

[ woo l-uh-stuh n ]

/ ˈwʊl ə stən /

noun

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

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Wollaston was conscious of balking, although he would not retreat.
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“I don't see anything to do but to go home,” said Wollaston.
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She heard a quick step behind her, and Wollaston Lee came up beside her.
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Wollaston himself took rather to science, although he was not scientific, and made a good deal of what he called psychology.
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“Oh, well, if she knew the name like that she might have found the place all right,” said Wollaston.
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Science 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.