B. M. Tassaert

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B. M. Tassaert

French chemist

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…the discovery by French chemist B.M. Tassaert in 1798 that ammoniacal solutions of cobalt chloride, CoCl₃, develop a brownish mahogany color. He failed to follow up on his discovery, however. It remained for others to isolate orange crystals with the composition CoCl₃ ∙ 6NH₃, the correct formulation of which is…
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…the discovery by French chemist B.M. Tassaert in 1798 that ammoniacal solutions of cobalt chloride, CoCl₃, develop a brownish mahogany color. He failed to follow up on his discovery, however. It remained for others to isolate orange crystals with the composition CoCl₃ ∙ 6NH₃, the correct formulation of which is…
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