Berzelius' beaker | Opinion | Chemistry World
Jons Jakob Berzelius (1799–1848) Source: © Apic/Getty Images Swedish chemist considered one of the founders of modern chemistry Several years ago an old family friend in Italy sent me a four-volume set of Jöns Jakob Berzelius’ Textbook of Chemistry that she had recently inherited from her brother with a card saying ‘Only you can truly appreciate these’. Utterly delighted, I didn’t give the note much thought, but instead dived into the books, delighting in the tables of densities and giggling at observations of the tastes of different salts (‘the sulphate of yttria tastes like s...
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