Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist (1748-1822)
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Berthollet cracked chemical equilibrium and chlorine bleaching in the late 1700s, then pivoted to French Senate vice president in 1804. His name stuck around partly because he helped modernize how chemists actually talk about what they do.
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Claude Louis Berthollet was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to the theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent.
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