what was it?

dextercioby

Nope.Yes,it's fair to ask the year,too.Approximately,of course.

Daniel.

zoobyshoe

No it's not. All we can do is guess, answer, or ask for another clue.

Was it Faraday?

dextercioby

I'm really sorry to say,but Faraday was not a chemist.

Clue.There's no chemical laboratory in the world without this thing.

Daniel.

Ivan Seeking

Bunsen and his burner

brewnog

Mr Bunsen?

Edit: Aww, pipped to the post. (Assuming that's the right answer!)

Ivan Seeking

Go ahead Brewnog, I can't stick around right now anyway.

dextercioby

Good try.Not what i had in mind.It can't get any more elemenatry than that.

The difficult,possibly googling part would be to come up with a name and an approximate year.

Daniel.

brewnog

1924, the invention of Pyrex?

dextercioby

It's not a chemical substance,but an object,INSTRUMENT,if u prefer.

No more clues.

Daniel.

brewnog

Buchner filter?
Leiblich condenser?

dextercioby

The only relevant hint i've given is "revolutionized chemistry".

Daniel.

zoobyshoe

Michael Faraday's Contributions to Electricity and Chemistry
Address:http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/faraday.html

dextercioby

He was a physicist.It's like saying Hilbert was a physicist,just because Hilbert spaces are crucial in physics and the Hilbert action for the gravitational field is essential in GR.

Electrolysis came after "chemistry was revolutionized".

Need i say that this is not a technical question,so it can be answered by virtually anyone...?

Daniel.

brewnog

The Centrifuge, invented by Benjamin Robins in the 18th century?

Only chem-pun I can think of around "revolutionized"...

zoobyshoe

Excluding Faraday as the correct answer on the basis he wasn't a chemist, rather than because it isn't the answer your looking for, is snooty and gratitously picayune, since electrochemistry did revolutionise chemistry.

honestrosewater

The Periodic Table of Elements, Dmitri Ivancritch Mendeléeff, 1864?? Edit: Oops, already guessed.

dextercioby

Nope,i excluded Faraday,simply because it was not a revolution. in the sense putting a *************** in a chemistry lab was.

Mendeleev's first published Table of Elements was in 1869.

Daniel.