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Georg Brandt (26 June 1694 – 29 April 1768) [1] [2] was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt c. 1735. He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times. He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times.
Around 1735, Swedish chemist Georg Brandt analyzed a dark blue pigment found in copper ore. Brandt demonstrated that the pigment contained a new element, later named cobalt. In 1751, a Swedish chemist and pupil of Stahl's named Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, identified an impurity in copper ore as a separate metallic element, which he named nickel.
From 1746 to 1748 Cronstedt took classes with George Brandt, the discoverer of cobalt, at the royal mining laboratory in Stockholm, the Laboratorium Chemicum. There he studied chemical analysis and smelting. [1]
Eventually, a less costly pigment was developed from cobalt ores, giving the color its present-day name. Cosmic Cobalt has been a favorite color for artists of every era. Getty Images/Wikimedia ...
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1912, Herbert Hoover (1874–1964; 31st President of the United States, 1929–1933) and his wife Lou Henry Hoover (1874–1944) translate George Agricola's De Re Metallica to English. Note: many mining expressions/words were Mediaeval German expressions, these expressions/words did not exist in Classical Latin.
Brandt, 24, was seen celebrating the couple’s upcoming nuptials in a sweet series of Instagram images shared by the NFL pro’s sister, Whittney Purdy. For the occasion, Brandt donned a white ...
In August 1949, George Brandt suggested running live shows in their 42nd Street theaters, [165] though his father William was initially against it. [ 166 ] [ 167 ] Even so, the Brandts announced the same December that they would stage a live show at the Selwyn, The Respectful Prostitute , the first such show in 15 years.