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Georges Lemoine

French chemist

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catalysts

In catalysis: History
In 1877 Georges Lemoine had shown that the decomposition of hydriodic acid to hydrogen and iodine reached the same equilibrium point at 350 °C (660 °F), 19 percent, whether the reaction was carried out rapidly in the presence of platinum sponge or slowly in the gas phase.…
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manufacture of matches

In match
…prepared by the French chemist Georges Lemoine in 1864 but was not used in matches until E.-D. Cahen and H. Sevène of the French government match monopoly filed a patent in 1898; within a few years white phosphorus was outlawed nearly everywhere.
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