See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE See also:

• JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )
• JEROME, ST (HIERONYMUS, in full EUSEBIUS SOPHRONIUS HIERONYMUS) (c. 340–420)

JEROME See also:

• ANTOINE JEROME BALARD (1802-1876)

BALARD (1802-1876)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MONTPELLIER

Montpellier on the 3oth of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1802 . He started as an See also:

• APOTHECARY (from the Lat. apothecarius, a keeper of an apotheca, Gr. aroth is , a store)

apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of sciences of his native See also:

• TOWN

town, and then became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry at the royal See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college and school of See also:

• PHARMACY

pharmacy and at the faculty of sciences . In 1826 he discovered in See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-See also:

• WATER

water a substance which he recognized as a previously unknown See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element and named See also:

• BROMINE (symbol Br, atomic weight 79-96)

bromine . The reputation brought him by this achievement secured his See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election as successor to L . J . See also:

• THENARD, LOUIS JACQUES (1777-1857)

Thenard in the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of chemistry at the faculty of sciences in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and in 1851 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the College de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, where he had M . P . E . See also:

• BERTHELOT, MARCELLIN PIERRE EUGENE (1827–1907)

Berthelot first as See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, then as assistant and finally as colleague . He died in Paris on the 3oth of See also:

• APRIL

April 1876 . While the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of bromine and the preparation of many of its compounds was his most conspicuous piece of See also:

• WORK

work, See also:

• BALARD, ANTOINE JEROME (1802-1876)

Balard was an industrious chemist on both the pure and applied sides . In his researches on the See also:

• BLEACHING

bleaching compounds of See also:

• CHLORINE (symbol Cl, atomic weight 35`46 (0=16)

chlorine he was the first to advance the view that bleaching-See also:

• POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

powder is a See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double See also:

• COMPOUND
• COMPOUND (from Lat. componere, to combine or put together)

compound of calcium239 chloride and hypochlorite; and he devoted much See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to the problem of economically obtaining soda and potash from sea-water, though here his efforts were nullified by. the discovery of the much richer See also:

• SOURCES

sources of See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply afforded by the See also:

• STASSFURT

Stassfurt deposits .

In organic chemistry he published papers on the decomposition of ammonium oxalate, with formation of oxamic See also:

• ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid, on amyl See also:

• ALCOHOL

alcohol, on the cyanides, and on the difference in constitution between nitric and sulphuric See also:

• ETHER, (C2H5)2O

ether .