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Berzelius’s Most Notable Contributions to Chemistry
by Ma-Sor Before the early 1800s the symbols used to denote chemical elements and compounds were obscure. Alchemists wanted to keep their work secret and so devised symbols for the chemicals they used that would not reveal anything about them. This all changed with the work of Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Berzelius was born in Linköping, […]