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Eilhard Mitscherlich

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eilhard Mitscherlich , 1794-1863, German chemist. He was professor at Berlin from 1822. Noted for his discovery of the principle of isomorphism , he did important work also on the compounds of phosphorus and arsenic and on benzene derivatives, and he discovered permanganic and silenic acids and nitrobenzene. Author not available, MITSCHERLICH, EILHARD. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
polymorphism
...Titanium dioxide is trimorphous; its three forms are brookite, anatase (or octahedrite), and rutile. Polymorphism of an element is called allotropy . The process was discovered (1821) by Eilhard Mitscherlich. See isomorphism ; mineral ; crystal . Read more
isomorphism
...and ratio of anion and cation radii are generally comparable (see ion ). Isomorphism was discovered (c.1820) by Eilhard Mitscherlich, who stated the principle that isomorphous substances have similar chemical formulas; this principle was used... Read more

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; ...Pope Gregory XIII, 1502; James Harrington, political theorist, 1611; Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples, 1768; Eilhard Mitscherlich, chemist, 1794; Millard Fillmore, 13th US President, 1800; Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, pianist and composer... Read more
Chance and the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur's discovery of mirror-image isomerism in salts of racemic acid)
; ...celebrated German crystallographer, Eilhard Mitscherlich, who had found that although...was not. It was in repeating Mitscherlich's work that the 26-year-old...older and more experienced Mitscherlich had overlooked. Pasteur found... Read more
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; ...young chemists of his generation, he spent a year in Germany where he studied in Berlin with Heinrich Rose and Eilhard Mitscherlich, and in Giessen with Justus Liebig. Liebig was about the same age as Charles and the two remained friendly until... Read more

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