Which element, discovered by Nicolas Vauquelin in 1797, has the atomic number 24. Its name is derived from the Greek word for colour?
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin acid and quinic acid. His death occurred while he was on a visit to his birthplace. Among his best known works is ""Manuel de l'essayeur"" (Manual of the assayer). The plant genus "Vauquelinia" is named in his honor, as is the Vauquelin, an egg white foam associated with molecular gastronomy, and the mineral vauquelinite, discovered at the same mine as the crocoite from which Vauquelin isolated chromium. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (16 May 1763 – 14 November 1829) was a French pharmacist and chemist. Vauquelin was born at Saint-André-d'Hébertot in Normandy, France. His first acquaintance with chemistry was
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin from that time he helped to edit the journal "Annales de Chimie" "(Chemical annals)", although he left the country for a while during the height of the French Revolution. In 1798 Vauquelin discovered beryllium oxide by extracting it from an emerald (a beryl variety); Klaproth isolated the element from the oxide. At first his work appeared as that of his master and patron, then in their joint names; in 1790 he began to publish on his own, and between that year and 1833 his name is associated with 376 papers. Most of these were simple records of patient and laborious