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[brewnog]

"Revolutionized chemistry".And who's responsible for "revolutioning chemistry"?

Dmitri Mendeleev?

 

[dextercioby]

Nope.Keep trying.

Daniel.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Humphrey Davy?

 

[dextercioby]

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

Daniel.

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

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]

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

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]

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".

Daniel.

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.

 

[zoobyshoe]

"Revolutionised Chemistry" is a pun of some sort.

 

[honestrosewater]

The compound microscope, Zacharias Janssen, ~1590??

 

[brewnog]

it was not a revolution. in the sense putting a *************** in a chemistry lab was.

Bench? Sink? Blackboard? Fume cupboard? Fridge? Door?

 

[dextercioby]

Chemists don't need a microscope more than a *********************.

Good guess.That's a biology lab,though.

Daniel.

 

[honestrosewater]

Yeah, I figured- but the question does seem very broad. Was is some kind of thermometer?? -No one is stealing this from me either!

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's going to turn out to be something like Cavendish being the first person to bring a round stool into the lab or something along those lines.

 

[dextercioby]

I think it was invented by that time,but nope,at that time,putting it in a lab was not crucial.

"Revolutionized chemistry=It literally changed the way chemistry was (being) done".

Daniel.

 

[dextercioby]

It's going to turn out to be something like Cavendish being the first person to bring a round stool into the lab or something along those lines.

It's really essential.You won't believe that simple it is.

Daniel.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's really essential.You won't believe that simple it is.

Daniel.

Artificial illumination? Say, an oil lamp?

 

[Evo]

centrifuge?

 

[dextercioby]

Evo's not original (check out the previous page with Ivan's answer).Nope,it's not a lighting tool.

Daniel.

EDIT:You're not original with the centrifuge,either.

 

[Evo]

Evo's not original (check out the previous page with Ivan's answer).Nope,it's not a lighting tool.

Daniel.

sorry, I hadn't read all posts, not even the quetion. I changed it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Test tube?

 

[matthyaouw]

Bunsen burner?

 

[honestrosewater]

First chemistry textbook, Andreas Libavius, 1597??
Vacuum pump, Otto von Guericke, 1645??

Eh, the pre-dating electrolysis was a hint, right?

 

[dextercioby]

Nope to test tube,Bunsen burner,well,it's the 3-rd time i see that answer,but Bunsen was born and worked in the XVIII-th century.

Daniel.

 

[Evo]

acidimeter?

 

[dextercioby]

Interesting,but nope,vacuum pump is in a plasma physics lab.Chemists would be dead without a ***************** in their lab.

Daniel.

 

[honestrosewater]

A ventilation system?!?

 

[dextercioby]

acidimeter?

At that time,they didn't know what acid was.

Please,guess it.If you don't,u'll see that those answers were/are unbelievebly complicated and u'll get a bit of frustration,too.

Daniel.

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

It is an object/instrument, but not a technical one.

Chamber pot?

 

[Evo]

At that time,they didn't know what acid was.

Please,guess it.If you don't,u'll see that those answers were/are unbelievebly complicated and u'll get a bit of frustration,too.

Daniel.

Did you ever state the century? Or will that give it away?

 

[brewnog]

COSHH risk assessment?

Coffee machine?

 

[dextercioby]

Did you ever state the century? Or will that give it away?

I'm asking for the object,which should be the easy part,then the guy who did it and the year (with approximation) in which it happened.

The century will be given as a clue,if you can't find the name and the year.

But first,the easy part.

No,to Brewnog's jokes.

Daniel.

 

[honestrosewater]

Coffee machine?

Heh, that would be math ;)

Okay some guesses: protective clothing (including glasses), storage device, a book, type of camera, uhhh... fire predates chemistry, so I guess that wouldn't have really revolutionized it?

 

[dextercioby]

They hadn't discovered corrosive substances,nor dangerous gases which might blow up.Daguerre was not born. And Gutenberg had already died.

Daniel.

 

[brewnog]

The match?

Robert Boyle (1680), John Walker (1827) or Charles Sauria (1830) are possible answers to that one.

 

[dextercioby]

I don't know what they used to light the fire.But they were doing it,so this is not the answer.

Daniel.

 

[honestrosewater]

Fire extinguisher!

 

[dextercioby]

No offense,but the fire extinguisher didn't quite revolutionize chemistry.

Daniel.