See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

LUDWIG See also:

• LUDWIG MOND (1839-1909)

MOND (1839-1909)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• CASSEL
• CASSEL, or KASSEL

Cassel in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany on the 7th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1839 . After studying See also:

• MONDOVI

MONDOVI 693 at See also:

• MARBURG
• MARBURG, COLLOQUY OF (Marburger Religionsgesprach)

Marburg under See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann See also:

• KOLBE, ADOLPHE WILHELM HERMANN (1818–1884)

Kolbe and at See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg under See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BUNSEN, CHRISTIAN CHARLES JOSIAS, BARON VON (1791-186o,)
• BUNSEN, ROBERT WILHELM VON (1811-1899)

Bunsen, he came to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1862 and obtained a position in a chemical See also:

• WORKS

works at See also:

• WIDNES

Widnes, where he elaborated the See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical application of a method he had devised for recovering the See also:

• SULPHUR

sulphur lost as See also:

• CALCIUM [symbol Ca, atomic weight 40.0 (o= x6)]

calcium sulphide in the See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black ash See also:

• WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste of the Leblanc See also:

• ALKALI

alkali See also:

• PROCESS

process . He became a 'naturalized British subject in 1867 . In 1873 he entered into See also:

• PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership with See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Tomlinson See also:

• BRUNNER, HENRY (184o– )

Brunner (b . 1842– ),whom he had met when he was at Widnes, and thus founded the See also:

• GREAT

great chemical manufacturing See also:

• FIRM

firm of Brunner, See also:

• MOND, LUDWIG (1839-1909)

Mond & Co . They began to make alkali by the See also:

• AMMONIA (NH3)

ammonia-soda process, under See also:

• LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence from the Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay, but at first the venture threatened to prove a failure . Gradually, however, the technical difficulties were overcome and success assured, largely as a result of improved methods worked out by Mond for the recovery of the ammonia . About 1879 he began experiments in the economical utilization of See also:

• FUEL (O. Fr. feuaile, popular Lat. focalia, from focus, hearth, fire)

fuel, and his efforts led him to the See also:

• SYSTEM

system of making producer-See also:

• GAS

gas, known by his name (see Gas: II . For Fuel and See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

Power) . Later, while attempting to utilize the gas for the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of See also:

• ELECTRICITY

electricity by means of a See also:

• GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
• GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
• GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

Grove gas See also:

• BATTERY (Fr. batterie, from battles, to beat)

battery, he noticed that the See also:

• CARBON (symbol C, atomic weight 12)

carbon monoxide contained in it combined with See also:

• NICKEL
• NICKEL (symbol Ni, atomic weight 58.68 (0=16))

nickel . The resulting See also:

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

compound, nickel carbonyl, which was described to the Chemical Society in 189o, is both formed and decomposed within a very moderate range of temperature, and on this fact he based a successful process for the extraction of nickel from its ores . A liberal contributor to the purposes of scientific See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research, Mond founded in 1896 the See also:

• DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY

Davy-See also:

• FARADAY, MICHAEL (1791-1867)

Faraday Research Laboratory in connexion with the Royal Institution .

On his See also:

• DEATH

death, which occurred in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 11th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1909, he bequeathed ,a large See also:

• PART

part of his collection of pictures to the nation .