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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
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The first exact determinations of its amount were made by Thenard in 1812.
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Thenard found that the proportion of this gas was about 4 volumes in 10,000 volumes of air.
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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
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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
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The most illustrious of these followers was Thenard.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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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 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
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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 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
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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
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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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