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BAUME, ANTOINE (1728-1894)

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BAUME, See also:ANTOINE (1728-1894) , See also:French chemist, was See also:born at Senlis on the 26th of See also:February 1728. He was apprenticed to the chemist See also:Claude See also:Joseph See also:Geoffroy, and in 1752 was admitted a member of the Ecole de Pharmacie, where in the same See also:year he was appointed See also:professor of See also:chemistry. The See also:money he made in a business he carried on in See also:Paris for dealing in chemical products enabled him to retire in 178o in See also:order to devote himself to applied chemistry, but, ruined in the Revolution, he was obliged to return to a commercial career. He devised many improvements in technical processes, e.g. for See also:bleaching See also:silk, See also:dyeing, See also:gilding, purifying See also:saltpetre, &c., but he is best known as the inventor of the See also:hydrometer associated with his name (often in this connexion improperly spelt Beaume). Of the numerous books and papers he wrote the most important is his Elemens de pharmacie theorique el pratique (9 See also:editions, 1762-1818). He became a member of the See also:Academy of Sciences in 1772, and an See also:associate of the See also:Institute in 1796. He died in Paris on the 15th of See also:October 1804.

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