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  • Thenard, and it is still held by a very eminent chemist, M. Pasteur, and their view is this, that the yeast, so to speak, eats

    Essays 2007

  • The first exact determinations of its amount were made by Thenard in 1812.

    Unthreaded #5 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Thenard found that the proportion of this gas was about 4 volumes in 10,000 volumes of air.

    Unthreaded #5 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The classical experiments of Thenard, of Th. de Saussure, of Messrs. Boussingault, on the quantity of carbonic acid in the air, are well known to every one: they need only to be organized, repeated, and multiplied.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

  • ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION, and the sense in which they are employed, is impossible, inasmuch as Lavoisier, Gay-Lussac, and Thenard have applied this term to the fermentation of sugar by means of beer yeast.

    The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

  • The most illustrious of these followers was Thenard.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Thenard, and it is still held by a very eminent chemist, M. Pasteur, and their view is this, that the yeast, so to speak, eats a little of the sugar, turns a little of it to its own purposes, and by so doing gives such a shape to the sugar that the rest of it breaks up into carbonic acid and alcohol.

    Yeast Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Thenard, and it is still held by a very eminent chemist, M. Pasteur, and their view is this, that the yeast, so to speak, eats a little of the sugar, turns a little of it to its own purposes, and by so doing gives such a shape to the sugar that the rest of it breaks up into carbonic acid and alcohol.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • From the experiments of Dupuytren and Thenard, air that contains a thousandth part of sulphureted hydrogen kills birds immediately.

    Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854

  • I might have been baron Thenard, member of the Institute [academy of ciences], but I am not.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

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