Article ID: CBB000015583

Pittical: The first synthetic dyestuff (1977)

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Description A brief account of the amusing accidental discovery of the first synthetic dyestuff by Karl Ludwig von Reichenbach (1788-1869) in 1832. A Spanish translation appears in Revista Chilena de Educación Química, 1978, 3: 252.


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Authors & Contributors
Travis, Anthony S.
Krätz, Otto Paul
Belt, Henk van den
Diem, Annemarie
Farrar, W. V.
Nieto-Galan, Agustí
Journals
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Chemie, Experiment + Didaktik
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Clio Medica
Publishers
Steiner
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Dyes; painting; bleaching
Textiles
Chemistry
Biographies
Chemical industry
Therapeutics
People
Caro, Heinrich
Hofmann, August Wilhelm von
Mercer, John
Reichenbach, Karl Ludwig von
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Griess, Johann Peter
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
British Isles
France
Great Britain
Canada
Germany
United States
Institutions
École nationale supérieure de chimie de Mulhouse (ENSCMu)
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