Indiatimes: How Christian Friedrich Schönbein accidentally discovered guncotton in 1846
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Christian Friedrich Schönbein
Christian Friedrich Schönbein HFRSE was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone. He also created the concept of geochemistry in 1838.
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Born 18 October 1799 · Died 29 August 1868 · Q61319
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2026· 2 entries
Nature: Christian Friedrich Schönbein, 1799–1868. Ein Blatt zur Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts
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2025· 1 entry
Nature: The Letters of Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Christian Friedrich Schönbein, 1836–1847
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2009· 1 entry
WDR: Stichtag: 13. März 2009 - Vor 170 Jahren: Christian Friedrich Schönbein entdeckt das Ozon
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1891· 1 entry
James Dewar and Frederick Augustus Abel also managed to transform gelatinized guncotton into a safe mixture, called cordite because it could be extruded into long thin cords before being dried
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1868· 1 entry
Died 1868-08-29.
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1846· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1846).
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1845· 1 entry
When his wife was away, he spilled a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid
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1839· 1 entry
Schönbein published the principle of the fuel cell in the "Philosophical Magazine"
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1799· 1 entry
Born 1799-10-18.
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