Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann

Abstract

Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann (1803-1881), French chemist who carried research in a wide variety of subjects and transformed many of his results into industrial reality that led him to fund a powerful chemical empire that is still active. He did work on catalysis with sponge of platinum, crystallization, vegetable and mineral dyes, metallurgy, soil fertility, nitrification, sugars of different sources, fluoride and hydrogen fluoride, etherification, alcoholic fermentation, wall efflorescence, etc.

Keywords

• ammonia
• crystallization
• dyes
• efflorescence
• etherification
• hydrogen cyanide
• hydrogen fluorine and fluorides
• madder
• metallurgy
• nitrification
• phytolacca
• platinum catalysts
• quinquina
• soil fertility
• sulfuric acid
• sugar