Auguste Laurent
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Auguste Laurent was a French chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of trichloroethylene, anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid.
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Trichloroethylene
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Trichloroethylene is an organochloride with the formula C2HCl3, commonly used as an industrial degreaser. It is a clear, colourless, non-flammable, volatile liquid with a sweet chloroform-like pleasan
Auguste Laurent
…Auguste Laurent (14 November 1807 – 15 April 1853) was a French chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of trichloroethylene, anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within…
Trichloroethene
Bottle of trichloroethylene for anesthesia by ICI
Inhaler used for Trilene, 1961–1970