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MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JOHN (1778–1820) , Scottish chemist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh in 1778 and died there on the 22nd of See also:

JULY

July 182o. He graduated M.D. at St See also:

Andrews in 1814, and attained some reputation as a lecturer on See also:

chemistry and materia medica. He was an opponent of See also:

Sir See also:

HUMPHRY, OZIAS (1742-1810)

Humphry See also:

DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY

Davy's theory of See also:

CHLORINE (symbol Cl, atomic weight 35`46 (0=16)

chlorine, supporting the view that the substance contained See also:

OXYGEN (symbol 0, atomic weight 16)

oxygen, and it was in the course of experiments made to disprove his arguments that Dr John Davy discovered phosgene or carbonyl chloride. He was a diligent writer of textbooks, including Elements of Chemistry (18o1); Elements of Materia Medica and See also:

PHARMACY

Pharmacy (1804); A See also:

SYSTEM

System of Chemistry (1806), and (anonymously) A See also:

COMPARATIVE

Comparative View of the Huttonian and Neptunian Systems of See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

Geology. He is sometimes confused with another John Murray (1786–1851), a popular lecturer at See also:

MECHANICS

mechanics' institutes. The two men carried on a dispute about the inven- I tion of a miners' safety See also:

LAMP (from Gr. Xag ras, a torch, Xaµaav, to shine)

lamp in the Phil. See also:

Hag. for 1817.

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