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Encyclopedia > Peter Woulfe

Peter Woulfe (17271803) was an Irish chemist and mineralogist who first had the idea that wolframite might contain a previously undiscovered element. Events 1727 to 1800 - Lt. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A chemist pours from a Florence flask. ... Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ... Wolframite (Fe,Mn)WO4, is an iron manganese tungstate mineral that is the intermediate between ferberite (Fe2+ rich) and huebernite (Mn2+ rich). ...


In 1779, Woulfe reported the formation of a yellow dye when indigo was treated with nitric acid. Later it was discovered by others that he had formed picric acid, which eventually was used as the first synthetic dye, an explosive and an antiseptic treatment for burns. Yarn drying after being dyed in the early American tradition, at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... Indigo dye indigo molecule Indigo dye is an important dyestuff with a distinctive blue color (see indigo). ... The chemical compound nitric acid (HNO3), otherwise known as aqua fortis or spirit of nitre, is an aqueous solution of hydrogen nitrate (anhydrous nitric acid). ... Picric acid is the common term for the chemical compound 2,4,6-trinitrophenol, also known as TNP; the material is a yellow crystalline solid. ... Preparing C-4 explosive This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... An antiseptic solution of iodine applied to a cut An antiseptic (Greek αντι, against, and σηπτικος, putrefactive) is a substance that prevents the growth and reproduction of various microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses). ...


He is also credited with inventing the Woulfe Bottle, a kind of wash bottle with two or three necks (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913)


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Peter Woulfe - Antwoorden.org (140 words)
Peter Woulfe (Limerick 1727 – Londen 1803) was een Engels mineraloog en chemicus (alchemist), vooral bekend geworden omdat hij het bestaan het wolfraam veronderstelde.
Woulfe studeerde zowel in Engeland als ook op het vaste land van Europa, onder andere in Madrid.
Naast zijn veronderstelling van wolfraam is een andere bekende vinding van hem de fles van Woulfe; een apparaat waarin gassen door vloeistoffen kunnen worden geleid.
Clare Woulfes (1089 words)
These were descended from Stephen Woulfe, one of the sons of James of Corbally (dead by 1638), and are thus a branch of the Limerick City Woulfes.
Patrick died in 1697 and was succeeded by his son, James Woulfe of Ennis, who emigrated to Paris where he died in 1749, leaving a son, Lawrence and a daughter, Mary, who married her distant cousin, Patrick, of the mainline there in 1747, and whose son was still living in Paris in 1770.
In 1659 one Thomas Woulfe, Gentleman, was a titulado at Poulaforia near Tulla, but the most interesting of these branches is represented by the Peter Woulfe, the famous minerologist and chemist, born 'at Tircullan near Limerick' in 1727.
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