Ernest Solvay
1839-1922
Belgian industrial chemist who invented an efficient low cost process to manufacture sodium carbonate (washing soda). Sodium carbonate is used in making ceramics, paper, as a c...
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Ernest Solvay was born in Rebecq-Rognon, near Brussels, Belgium, to a family of industrial chemists. Although his only formal education was at local schools, young Solvay read and experimented widely ...
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Ernest Solvay was born in Rebecq-Rognon, near Brussels, Belgium, to a family of industrial chemists. Although his only formal education was at local schools, young Solvay read and experimented widely ...
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Ernest Solvay
Ernest Solvay
Ernest Solvay