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Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɔstˌvalt] ⓘ; 2 September [O.S. 21 August] 1853 – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist and philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry , with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , Walther Nernst , and Svante Arrhenius . [ 1 ]
A three-dimensional drawing of Wilhelm Ostwald’s color system. In colorimetry, the Ostwald color system is a color space that was invented by the Baltic German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald. Associated with The Color Harmony Manual, it comprises a set of paint chips representing the Ostwald color space. There are four different editions of the ...
Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften. Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (English: Ostwald's classics of the exact sciences) is a German book series that contains important original works from all areas of natural sciences. It was founded in 1889 by the physical chemist Wilhelm Ostwald and is now published by Europa-Lehrmittel .
Weltdeutsch ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɛltdɔɪtʃ] ⓘ VELT-doych, lit. 'World-German') was a proposal for a German-based zonal international auxiliary language by chemist and interlinguist Wilhelm Ostwald. [1] Published in 1916 in Ostwald's Monistic Sunday Sermons ( German: Monistische Sonntagspredigten ), Weltdeutsch was a reflection of ...
The Wilhelm Ostwald Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig, located at Linnéstraße 2 in Leipzig, is the oldest physical chemistry institute in Germany. It is one of seven institutes of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy of the University of Leipzig. The institute was ceremoniously inaugurated in ...
Growth of bubbles in a liquid foam via Ostwald ripening. [2] Ostwald ripening is a phenomenon observed in solid solutions and liquid sols that involves the change of an inhomogeneous structure over time, in that small crystals or sol particles first dissolve and then redeposit onto larger crystals or sol particles. [3]
Rule that less stable polymorphs crystallize first. In materials science, Ostwald's ruleor Ostwald's step rule, conceived by Wilhelm Ostwald,[1]describes the formation of polymorphs. The rule states that usually the less stablepolymorph crystallizes first.[2] Ostwald's rule is not a universal law but a common tendency observed in nature.
Chondrichthyes (/ k ɒ n ˈ d r ɪ k θ i. iː z / kon-DRIK-thee-eez; from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros) 'cartilage' and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) 'fish') is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.