Wollaston
William Hyde, 1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.
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How to use Wollaston in a sentence
Mr. Linthorn intends to request Dr. Wollaston to accompany you, any day convenient to you.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickIt was this attention to minute phenomena which Dr. Wollaston applied with such powerful effect to chemistry.
Decline of Science in England | Charles BabbageWollaston and I spent most of the afternoon pottering round and collecting seeds of plants of different kinds.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryWith this camera Mr. Wollaston secured some of the finest pictures taken on the Expedition.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryThey had their eye on a little place out of town, out Wollaston way, and Pinney was going to try to get hold of it.
The Quality of Mercy | W. D. Howells
Scientific definitions for Wollaston
[ wul′ə-stən ]
British chemist and physicist who discovered the elements palladium (1803) and rhodium (1804). In 1805 he devised a process for producing malleable platinum that could be used to make various utensils and apparatus. Wollaston was also one of the first scientists to realize that the arrangement of atoms in a molecule must be three-dimensional.
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