Mond, Ludwig

CVD is not a new process. As stated in the pioneer work of Powell, Oxley, andBlocher, 1 its first practical use was developed in the 1880s in the production of incandescent lamps to i mprove the strength of filaments by coating them with carbon or metal. In the same decade, the carbonyl process was developed by Ludwig Mond and others for the production of pure nickel. A number of patents were issued during that period coveringthe basis of CVD.PI... 

This is the Mond reaction, first developed by Ludwig Mond in 1890. It is still used forthe production and purification of metallic nickel. A similar reaction is used for the production of Fe(CO)5 but higher temperature is required. 

Schmidbaur, H. (1995) Ludwig Mond Lecture. High-Carat Gold Compounds. Chemical Society Reviews, 24, 391—400. 

Johannes Richard Lischka. Ludwig Mond and the British Alkali Industry. New York Garland Publishing Inc., 1985. 

Ludwig Mond. The Origins of the Ammonia-Soda Process. Journal of the Society of Chemical Industries. 4 (1885) 527-529. 

Cohen, J. M., The Life of Ludwig Mond, Methuen, London, 1956, 211. 

In 1896, Antonio Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) made a new type of battery and used a carbon rod. Ludwig Mond and Carl Langer produced a gas-powered battery and called their system a fuel cell in 1889. In 1889, Ludwig Mond (1838-1909) and assistant Carl Langer described their experiments with a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell that attained 6 A (ampere) per square foot at 0.73 V. Mond and Langer s cell used electrodes of thin, perforated platinum. 

German chemist Ludwig Mond (1839-1909) and his colleagues experiment with hydrogen cells and use the modern term fuel cell. 

With the aid of a new liquid-air machine, generously provided by Dr. Ludwig Mond, Professor Ramsay and Dr. Travers prepared larger quantities of krypton and neon, and by repeated fractionation of krypton, a still heavier gas was separated from it, which they named xenon, the stranger (15). It was discovered on July 12, 1898. Vacuum tubes containing it show forth a beautiful blue glow. 

Professor Bradley has published over 250 original papers. In recognition of his work he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society (1980) and awarded the Ludwig Mond Medal and Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1987). 

In 1890, Ludwig Mond, Carl Langer, and Friedrich Quincke (24) announced the discovery of nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)4. The unusual properties of this carbonyl stimulated a great deal of interest and investigation into other carbonyls and in 1908, Mond, Hirtz, and Cowap (25) described cobalt carbonyl. They found (26) by cryoscopic measure-... 

Paul Schiitzenberger and Ludwig Mond The First Metal Carbonyls... 

Although Ludwig Mond s work was not very much appreciated by most of his contemporaries working in academia, he had nevertheless made one of the truly seminal discoveries in science [46]. Moreover, he had also founded an essential part of organometallic chemistry that began to blossom during the course of the second quarter of the twentieth century. 

E. Abel, Ludwig Mond - Father of Metal Carbonyls - and so Much More, J. Organomet. Chem. 383, 11-20 (1990). 

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