Bussy, Antoine

Antoine-Alexandre-Brutus Bussy (1794-1882) obtained the metal by the reaction of magnesium chloride with potassium. 

Joseph Black recognized Mg as an element, and in 1808, Humphry Davy electrolytically made Mg amalgam. The metal was isolated by Antoine Bussy in 1828 by reduction of MgCl2 with K. 

The quantity of metal which Davy prepared was very small, and it was not until 1831 that it was first prepared in a coherent form. This was done by the French chemist, Antoine-Alexandre-Brutus Bussy, who was bom at Marseilles on May 29, 1794. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique for a time, but his interest in chemistry soon led him to abandon his military career and to become apprenticed to a pharmacist. After studying pharmacy at Lyons and at Paris he became a pupil of P.-J. Robiquet, who was then a pr parateur in chemistry at the Ecole de... 

Antoine-Alexandre-Brutus Bussy, 1794— 1882. French chemist, pharmacist, and physician. Professor of chemistry at the Ecole de Pharmacie in Paris. He was connected with this school for more than fifty years, and for nearly thirty years he served as its director. In 1831 he obtained magnesium in coherent form. 

French chemist Antoine-Alexandre-Brutus Bussy is born on May 29 in Marseille, France. 

Friedrich Wohler and Antoine Bussy isolate beryllium. 

Antoine Bussy dies on March 1 in Paris, France. 

Not only is Wohler known for making the first organic chemical outside of a living cell, he also discovered the elements beryllium (independently discovered by Antoine Bussy), silicon, aluminum, yttrium, and titanium. In case that wasn t enough to cement his position in the annals of chemistry, he also discovered that meteorites contained organic compounds and developed a process to purify nickel. 

Antoine-Alexandre-Brutus Bussy (1794-1882) was a pharmacist and doctor. He became professor of chemistry at the ficole de Pharmacie in Paris. An inorganic chemistry experiment he performed in 1828 entitles him to a position in the story of element discoveries. Beryllium chloride and potassium metal were mixed in a platinum crucible, which was closed by a platinum hd. The crucible was heated by a spirit lamp. The reaction was so violent that the crucible became white hot After washing the residue with water, elemental beryllium remained as a grayish-black powder. Independently, and about the same time, F. Wohler in Germany carried out the same reaction. 

In 1831, Antoine-Alexandre-Brutus Bussy, a French chemist and pharmacist, developed a better method of preparing magnesium by heating the chloride with potassium under isolated conditions, as shown in Equation (13.3) ... 

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