Eugène-Melchior Péligot

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Eugène-Melchior Péligot

French chemist

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uranium
…isolated (1841) by French chemist Eugène-Melchior Péligot by the reduction of uranium tetrachloride (UCl₄) with potassium.
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…isolated (1841) by French chemist Eugène-Melchior Péligot by the reduction of uranium tetrachloride (UCl₄) with potassium.
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uranium processing
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…however, that the French chemist Eugène-Melchior Péligot showed that the black metallic substance obtained by Klaproth was really the compound uranium dioxide. Péligot prepared actual uranium metal by reducing uranium tetrachloride with potassium metal.
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…however, that the French chemist Eugène-Melchior Péligot showed that the black metallic substance obtained by Klaproth was really the compound uranium dioxide. Péligot prepared actual uranium metal by reducing uranium tetrachloride with potassium metal.
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