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Berthollet, Count

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A famous chemist, native of Savoy, to whom we owe the discovery of the bleaching properties of chlorine, the employment of carbon in purifying water, &c., and many improvements in the manufactures; became a senator and officer of the Legion of Honour under Napoleon; attached himself to the Bourbons on their return, and was created a peer (1744-1822).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Berthollet, Count'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/berthollet-count.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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