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Claude Louis Berthollet (9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoy
Duchy of Savoy

From 1416 to 1714, the territories of the House of Savoy were known as the Duchy of Savoy . The Duchy was a state in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, with some territories that are now in France....
ard-French chemist
Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
 who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

de Louis Berthollet was born in Talloires
Talloires

Talloires is a small town and commune in France of the Haute-Savoie d?partement in France, in the Rh?ne-Alpes r?gion in France of eastern France....
, near Annecy
Annecy

Annecy is a city in the Rh?ne-Alpes Regions of France in southeastern France. It lies on northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometers south of Geneva....
, then part of the Duchy of Savoy
Duchy of Savoy

From 1416 to 1714, the territories of the House of Savoy were known as the Duchy of Savoy . The Duchy was a state in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, with some territories that are now in France....
, in 1749.

Berthollet, along with Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier , the Fathers_of_scientific_fields#Chemistry, was a French people noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology....
 and others, devised a chemical nomenclature, or a system of names, which serves as the basis of the modern system of naming chemical compounds.






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Claude Louis Berthollet (9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoy
Duchy of Savoy

From 1416 to 1714, the territories of the House of Savoy were known as the Duchy of Savoy . The Duchy was a state in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, with some territories that are now in France....
ard-French chemist
Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
 who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

Biography

Claude Louis Berthollet was born in Talloires
Talloires

Talloires is a small town and commune in France of the Haute-Savoie d?partement in France, in the Rh?ne-Alpes r?gion in France of eastern France....
, near Annecy
Annecy

Annecy is a city in the Rh?ne-Alpes Regions of France in southeastern France. It lies on northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometers south of Geneva....
, then part of the Duchy of Savoy
Duchy of Savoy

From 1416 to 1714, the territories of the House of Savoy were known as the Duchy of Savoy . The Duchy was a state in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, with some territories that are now in France....
, in 1749.

Berthollet, along with Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier , the Fathers_of_scientific_fields#Chemistry, was a French people noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology....
 and others, devised a chemical nomenclature, or a system of names, which serves as the basis of the modern system of naming chemical compounds. He also carried out research into dye
Dye

A dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has an Chemical affinity to the Wiktionary:substrate to which it is being applied....
s and bleaches (introducing the use of chlorine
Chlorine

Chlorine...
 as a bleach) and determined the composition of ammonia
Ammonia

Ammonia is a chemical compound with the chemical formula nitrogenhydrogen. It is normally encountered as a gas with a characteristic pungent odor....
. Berthollet was one of the first chemists to recognize the characteristics of a reverse reaction, and hence, chemical equilibrium
Chemical equilibrium

In a chemical process, chemical equilibrium is the state in which the Activity or concentrations of the reactants and products have no net change over time....
. Potassium chlorate
Potassium chlorate

Potassium chlorate is a compound containing potassium, chlorine and oxygen, with the chemical formula KClO3. In pure form, it is a white crystalline substance....
 (KClO3), a strong oxidizer, is known as Berthollet's Salt. Non-stoichiometric compound
Non-stoichiometric compound

Non-stoichiometric compounds are chemical compounds with an chemical element composition that cannot be represented by a ratio of well-defined natural numbers, and therefore violate the law of definite proportions....
s are also named berthollides in his honor.

Berthollet was one of several scientists who went with Napoleon to Egypt, and was a member of the physics and natural history section of the Institut d'Égypte
Institut d'Égypte

The Institut d??gypte was a learned academy formed by Napoleon I of France to carry out research during his French Invasion of Egypt ....
.

He died in Arcueil
Arcueil

Arcueil is a commune in France in the Val-de-Marne Departments of France located in what can be considered as the southern suburbs of Paris, France....
, France in 1822.

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