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[Moonbear]

Magnetic stir bar/stir plate?

 

[honestrosewater]

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

Daniel.

But every chemistry lab has one (I hope)! I'm running out of ideas. Can you tell us whether it was an idea or a physical object?

 

[dextercioby]

Both.The significance of that gesture/act was so great,that it changed everything in the world right now.Just like Faraday's 1831 electromagnetic induction discovery.

Daniel.

 

[honestrosewater]

Any of Newton's ideas should be well-known, so that doesn't fit... Robert Boyle founding The Royal Society of London? Oh, that doesn't work either.

 

[Moonbear]

Oh, or what's that rotating thingamabob that spins the round bottom flasks when you evaporate solvents off your product? Is it simply called a rotating evaporator...something like that anyway.

 

[dextercioby]

Moonbear,as i said,it's not a technical question.You needn't be a chemist,or a math girl to answer it correctly.

Daniel.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I keep coming back to Cavendish. Was it his discovery of the constituents of water? His hydrogen generator?

 

[Moonbear]

Moonbear,as i said,it's not a technical question.You needn't be a chemist,or a math girl to answer it correctly.

Daniel.

Well, that's why I started my guessing with a stir plate!

How about the periodic table of elements? (Not sure if that has already been guessed; I skimmed through the two pages of guesses.)

 

[dextercioby]

Cavendish?I thought it was Priestley,but maybe it's just me...

Nope,Zoobyshoe,it's much easier than that.

Daniel.

 

[rachmaninoff]

safety goggles?

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

This clue bothers me. Both lye and acid were in use pre-Gutenberg. The Chinese had also invented gunpowder well before Gutenberg

 

[honestrosewater]

Okay, it revolutionized chemistry, isn't a chemical substance nor technical instrument but an act/gesture, is in every chemistry lab, happened between ~1463-1789, and the author and date may be difficult to find.

The publication of the first scientific journal?

 

[brewnog]

This clue bothers me. Both lye and acid were in use pre-Gutenberg. The Chinese had also invented gunpowder well before Gutenberg

Me too, I was a bit confused about the explosive gases thing.

 

[Evo]

microscope? airpump?

 

[honestrosewater]

Nope, I already guessed safety goggles and microscope. And air pump.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Me too, I was a bit confused about the explosive gases thing.

I think we may have a clue-writing impaired person on our hands.

 

[brewnog]

It would be very Dex to give a load of cryptic random clues which don't actually lead anywhere, and see how long it takes for us to realize.

 

[dextercioby]

It's an object and this guy though of using it in his chemistry experiments.The gesture would be using it to ****** the g******* (curse) things...

Daniel.

 

[Evo]

He said it was an object.

Here are his hints -

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

Chemists would be dead without a ***************** in their lab.

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.

Chemists would be dead without a ***************** in their lab.

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

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

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

 

[dextercioby]

I think we may have a clue-writing impaired person on our hands.

Hold on,that was not a clue. Need i spell:CLUE everytime i want to write something...?

Daniel.

 

[Moonbear]

Analytical balance?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Hold on,that was not a clue. Need i spell:CLUE everytime i want to write something...?

That settles that. We do have a clue-writting impaired person on our hands

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's an object and this guy though of using it in his chemistry experiments.The gesture would be using it to ****** the g******* (curse) things...

Cork bottle stopper?

 

[dextercioby]

Analytical balance?

YES. Not "analytical",a simple balance to weigh the substances.Can anyone provide a name and an approximate year for it...?

Need i say the importance of having a balance in a chemistry lab...?

MOONBEAR wins round one.

Daniel.

 

[Evo]

Joseph Black 1754

 

[dextercioby]

Yes.The Scottish guy did it. Where & how did you find it?

Daniel.

 

[brewnog]

Moonbear's a Scottish guy?!

That explains a lot!

 

[Evo]

Yes.The Scottish guy did it. Where & how did you find it?

Daniel.

I googled it.

 

[Gokul43201]

The clue about revolutionizing chemistry made me think immediately of Lavoisier, who was executed during the French Revolution. But I can't think of any object he invented...

Following the object line of reasoning led me to Celsius (who likely fits the timeline) but was really an astronomer...

Galvani was a bio guy, and I can't think of anything he invented...

Ummm...nothing else comes to mind...

 

[Gokul43201]

Oops...Black, it was , eh ? Nevermind. Moonbear's up.

PS : Thought of the physical balance, but imagined that was there before medieval times...