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Scheele   /ʃil/   Listen
Scheele

noun
1.
Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786).  Synonyms: Karl Scheele, Karl Wilhelm Scheele.






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"Scheele" Quotes from Famous Books



... Although Scheele in 1779 discovered that in the preparation of lead plaster glycerol is liberated, soap at that time was regarded as a mere mechanical mixture, and the constitution of oils and fats was not properly understood. It was Chevreul who showed that the manufacture of soap involved a definite chemical ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons

... explain. Any one who has ever seen an old fortune-teller of "the people" keeping some simple-minded maiden by the hand, while she holds her by her glittering eye, like the Ancient Mariner, with a basilisk stare, will agree with me. As Scheele de Vere writes, "It must not be forgotten that the human eye has, beyond question, often a power which far transcends the ordinary purposes of sight, and approaches the boundaries ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland

... Intense pains in Vomit patient repeatedly, Rough on rats, stomach and bowels; give hydrated oxide of iron White arsenic, thirst; vomiting, with magnesia, usually kept Fowler's solution, perhaps with blood; by druggists for emergencies; Scheele's green. cold and clammy skin. follow with strong solution of common salt ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell



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