Elizabeth Fulhame was a British, specifically Scottish, chemist perhaps best known for her 1794 work An Essay on Combustion. Year 1794 ( MDCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The book details her experiments on oxidation-reduction reactions and catalysis. Catalysis is the process in which the rate of a Chemical reaction is increased by means of a Chemical substance known as a catalyst As the title implies it also concerned theories on combustion. The book is seen by some as a precursor to the work of Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Friherre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 &ndash 7 August 1848 was a Swedish chemist That stated she focused more on water as a catalyst rather than heavy metals.
Her work was known in its time, as a description of it was written by Coindet, but aroused no interest.
External links
- Article from the University of Valencia
- History of Women and Science from Wisconsin University
- The Women behind the men
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