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MOISSAN, HENRI (1852-1907) , French chemist, was born at Paris on the 28th of September 1852. Educated at the Museum of Natural History, he was successively professor of toxicology
chemistry (1889) at the School of Pharmacy, and of general chemistry at the Sorbonne (1900). In 1886 he succeeded in obtaining the element
electrolysis of potassium fluoride and anhydrous hydrofluoric acid at a low temperature. Thence he was led to study the production of carbon in its three varieties and to attempt the artificial preparation of diamond, of which he was able to make some minute specimens (see GEMS, Artificial). In connexion with these experiments he developed
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His published works include Le four electrique (1897), and Le fluor et ses composes (1900), besides 'numerous papers in the Comptes rendus and other scientific periodicals
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