Q. Who developed the theory of chemical equilibria?
Solution:
- Claude Louis Berthollet was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.
- He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature.
- On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent.
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