British Royal Society

Electrochemistry might be said to have originated with the publication of physicist A. Volta s report on the discovery of the battery to the British Royal Society 200 years ago [1]. Major contributions by Michael Faraday [2] and Helmholtz [3] continued this involvement by physicists in its developments... 

In 1774 Benjamin Franklin recounted his first experiences with surfactants to the British Royal Society. 

The authors acknowledge the support of this British-Chinese joint research project provided by the British Royal Society and China National Natural Science foundation. 

Melis A (2002) British Royal Society Meeting, London. March 13-15, 2002. 

S. Tennant, like W. Wollaston, dissolved crude platinum in aqua regia. At the bottom of the retort he discovered a black precipitate with metallic lustre. This phenomenon had been observed previously in experiments with platinum, but the precipitate was believed to be graphite. In summer 1803 Tennant suggested that the precipitate most likely contained a new metal. In autumn of the same year the French chemist H. Collet-Descoties also concluded that the precipitate contained a metal that precipitated from ammonium platinum salts and yielded red colour. In his turn, L. Vauquelin heated the black powder with alkali and obtained a volatile oxide. Vauquelin believed that it was an oxide of the metal mentioned by H. Descoties. Tennant s experiment set off a series of investigations. Tennant himself continued his research and in spring 1804 he reported to the British Royal Society that the powder contained two new metals which could be separated fairly easily. In 1805 he published the article On Two Metals Found in the Black Powder Formed after Dissolution of Platinum . The names osmium and iridium were mentioned in the article for the first time. 

Dimitratos, N. and Vedrine, J.C. Selective oxidation of propane on Cs2.5Hi.5PViW cMoi cO40 heteropolyoxometaUate compounds. In Catalysis in Application, Jackson, S.D., Hargreaves J.S.J., and Lennon, D., Eds. British Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2003, pp. 145-152. 

Boyle Robert (1627-1691) Brit, chem., disaffirming the indoctrination of four elements, cofounder of British Royal Society and scientific journal Philosophical Transactions , designed vacuum pump, chemistry of combustion and respiration... 

Foreign Member of the British Royal Society (allowed to use the title Paul Josef Crutzen, ForMemRS), London, UK... 

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