French chemist and politician. He abandoned his career as a politician to devote himself to chemistry. His greatest contribution to this science was the creation (together with other chemists: Lavoisier, Fourcroy and Berthollet) of a nomenclature method which is still in use. For the fumigation of buildings, he proposed the use of "muriatic acid gas" and he is sometimes given credit for having suggested chlorine for that purpose but chlorine was not well characterized at that time, and hydrogen chloride (made by reacting sodium chloride and sulfuric acid) was actually the active gasseus fumigation agent.
French chemist and politician. He abandoned his career as a politician to devote himself to chemistry. His greatest contribution to this science was the creation (together with other chemists: Lavoisier, Fourcroy and Berthollet) of a nomenclature method which is still in use. For the fumigation of buildings, he proposed the use of "muriatic acid gas" and he is sometimes given credit for having suggested chlorine for that purpose but chlorine was not well characterized at that time, and hydrogen chloride (made by reacting sodium chloride and sulfuric acid) was actually the active gasseus fumigation agent.
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