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  2. John B. Goodenough - Wikipedia

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    Blue plaque erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry commemorating work towards the rechargeable lithium-ion battery at Oxford The U.S. government eventually terminated Goodenough's research funding, so during the late 1970s and early 1980s, he left the United States and continued his career as head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the ...

  3. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The earliest gold metallurgy is known from the Varna culture in Bulgaria, dating from c. 4600 BC. [6] Silver, copper, tin and meteoric iron can also be found native, allowing a limited amount of metalworking in ancient cultures. [7] Egyptian weapons made from meteoric iron in about 3000 BC were highly prized as "daggers from Heaven". [8]

  4. Nickel compounds - Wikipedia

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    Nickel ions can act as a cation in salts with many acids, including common oxoacids. Salts of the hexaaqua ion (Ni · 6 H 2 O 2+) are especially well known. Many double salts containing nickel with another cation are known. There are organic acid salts. Nickel can be part of a negatively charged ion (anion) making what is called a nickellate.

  5. Timeline of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.

  6. Wax - Wikipedia

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    Wax candle. Waxes such as paraffin wax or beeswax, and hard fats such as tallow are used to make candles, used for lighting and decoration. Another fuel type used in candle manufacturing includes soy. Soy wax is made by the hydrogenation process using soybean oil.

  7. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Perey discovered it as a decay product of 227 Ac. [177] Francium was the last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesized in the lab, although four of the "synthetic" elements that were discovered later (plutonium, neptunium, astatine, and promethium) were eventually found in trace amounts in nature as well. [178]

  8. Chelation - Wikipedia

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    Chelation (/ k iː ˈ l eɪ ʃ ən /) is a type of bonding of ions and their molecules to metal ions. It involves the formation or presence of two or more separate coordinate bonds between a polydentate (multiple bonded) ligand and a single central metal atom.

  9. History of molecular theory - Wikipedia

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    Lewis-type Chemical bond. In Lewis' own words: An electron may form a part of the shell of two different atoms and cannot be said to belong to either one exclusively. Moreover, he proposed that an atom tended to form an ion by gaining or losing the number of electrons needed to complete a cube.