Richter, Jeremias Benjamin

Jeremias Benjamin Richter, der entdecker der chemischen pro-portionen, Breslau, 1874. 

The concept of stoichiometry was first described in 1792 by the German scientist Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762-1807). He stated that "stoichiometry is the science of measuring the quantitative proportions or mass ratios in which chemical elements stand to one another." Can you think of another reason why Richter was famous ... 

Partington, James Riddick. Jeremias Benjamin Richter and the Law of Reciprocal Proportions. Ann. Sci. 7, 173-198 (1951). 

This equation serves to identify the species taking part and shows that for every two H2 molecules and one O2 molecule that react, two molecules of water are formed. This information concerning the relative amounts of reactants and products is known as the stoichiometry of the reaction. This term was introduced by the German chemist Jeremias Benjamin Richter as early as 1792 in order to denote the relative amounts in which acids and bases neutralize each other it is now used in a more general way. 

Jeremias Benjamin Richter, bom Mar. 10, 1762, in Hrrschberg, now Jelenia Gora, Poland, died Apr. 14, 1807, in Berlin, Germany. 

A forerunner of Dalton, Jeremias Benjamin Richter (a porcelain chemist who died of tuberculosis at the age of 45) had proposed that chemical processes are based on mathematical laws, and he had coined... 

FIGURE 3.2 Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762-1807), the originator of the term stoichiometry. This image is in the public domain, and it was obtained from http //commons. wikimedia... 

Jeremias Benjamin Richters particle size explanation for the color of drinkable gold colloidal gold known since antiquity (e.g., Lycurgus cup, fourth century AD)... 

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