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1: Rev Hist Pharm (Paris). 2008 Feb;55(356):495-504.Links

[A.J. Balard, the bromium discoverer]

[Article in French]

Charlot C.

Musée de la pharmacie de Montpellier, Faculté de pharmacie, 15 avenue Charles-Flahaut, 34093 Montpellier 5.

He was graduate pharmacist at the "Ecole de pharmacie de Montpellier" in 1826. At the same time his report about a new element was read to the members of Academy of Sciences in Paris. He has found bromium in the waters from Mediterranean salt-marsh. This discovery was the starting point of a new chemistry. It was indeed the first time that someone demonstrated the existence of chemical elements families.

Personal Name as Subject:
Balard AJ

PMID: 18549189 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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