Scheele in a sentence

A friendship developed between Scheele and Bergman after Scheele analyzed a reaction which Bergman and his assistant Johan Gottlieb Gahn could not resolve.

Bergman informed Scheele that the saltpeter he had purchased from Scheele's employer, after long heating, produced red vapors (now known to be nitrogen dioxide) when it came into contact with acetic acid.

Existing theories before Scheele By the time he was a teenager, Scheele had learned the dominant theory of gases which in the 1770s was the phlogiston theory.

Scheele also posted a letter to Lavoisier on September 30, 1774 that described his discovery of the previously unknown substance, but Lavoisier never acknowledged receiving it (a copy of the letter was found in Scheele's belongings after his death).

Scheele's father Joachim (or Johann) Christian Scheele, was a grain dealer and brewer from a respected German family.

Scheele has seen the fungus's carnage firsthand.

The annual event, according to Scheele and Anderson, brings several benefits for both students and staff.

Based upon this friendship and respect Scheele was given free use of Bergman's laboratory.

Before Scheele made his discovery of oxygen, he studied air.

Death In the fall of 1785, Scheele began to suffer from symptoms described as kidney disease.

Discovery Carl Wilhelm Scheele beat Priestley to the discovery but published afterwards.

Friends of Scheele's parents taught him the art of reading prescriptions and the meaning of chemical and pharmaceutical signs.

Further study of this reaction later led to Scheele's discovery of oxygen (see "The theory of phlogiston" below).

Gernsheim, pg. 7 The Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele showed in 1777 that silver chloride was especially susceptible to darkening from light exposure, and that once darkened, it becomes insoluble in an ammonia solution.

He attempted to clear up the confusion between molybdena, plumbago and blacklead after Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1778 proved that there are at least three different minerals.

In 1769 Johan Gottlieb Gahn and Carl Wilhelm Scheele showed that calcium phosphate ( Camain (POmain )main ) is found in bones, and they obtained elemental phosphorus from bone ash.

In the fall of 1770 Scheele became director of the laboratory of the great pharmacy of Locke, at Uppsala which is about 40 miles north of Stockholm.

It was through his studies of manganese dioxide that Scheele developed his concept of "fire air" (his name for oxygen).

Much of Scheele's later theoretical speculations were based upon Stahl.

On October 29, 1777, Scheele took his seat for the first, and only time, at a meeting of the Academy of Sciences and on November 11 passed the examination as apothecary before the Royal Medical College and did so with highest honours.