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See also:PROUT, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1785-1850) , See also:English chemist and physician, was See also:born at See also:Horton, See also:Gloucestershire, on the 15th of See also:January 1785, and died in See also:London on the 9th of See also:April 185o. His See also:life was spent as a practising physician in London, but he also occupied himself with chemical See also:research. He was an active worker in physiological See also:chemistry, and carried out many analyses of the products of living organisms, among them being one of the gastric juice which, at the end of 1823, resulted in the notable See also:discovery that the See also:acid contents of the See also:stomach contain hydrochloric acid which is separable by See also:distillation. In 1815 be published anonymously in the See also:Annals of See also:Philosophy a See also:paper
On the relation between the specific gravities of bodies in their gaseous See also:state and the weights of their atoms," in which he calculated that the atomic weights of a number of the elements are multiples of that of See also:hydrogen; and in a second paper published in the same periodical the following See also:year he suggested that the 'irpCurrt An of the ancients is realized in hydrogen, from which the other elements are formed by some See also:process of condensation or grouping. This view, generally known as " Prout's See also:hypothesis," at least had the merit of stimulating inquiry, and many of the most careful determinations of atomic weights undertaken since its promulgation have been provoked by the See also:desire to test its validity.
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