Definition of Joseph Black

1. Noun. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799).

Exact synonyms: Black
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Joseph Black

Jose Orozco
Josef Albers
Josef Hoffmann
Josef Michel Montgolfier
Josef von Sternberg
Joselin
Joselyn
Joseph
Joseph's clamp
Joseph's coat
Joseph's flower
Joseph's flowers
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Joseph Banks Rhine
Joseph Black (current term)
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Deems Taylor
Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Joseph Emerson Worcester
Joseph Francis Keaton
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Heller
Joseph Henry
Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc
Joseph Hooker
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre

Literary usage of Joseph Black

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Chemistry by Forris Jewett Moore (1918)
"With Joseph Black (1728-1799) we come to the eminent group of distinguished chemists whose work contributed so largely to the overthrow of the phlogiston ..."

2. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the by Lyman Chalkley, Mary Smith Lockwood (1912)
"... and appoint such surveyor as you in your wisdom shall think fit, and your petitioners, as in duty boun; will pray. (Signed) Joseph Black, James ..."

3. The Life and Times of Henry, Lord Brougham by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1871)
"Joseph Black, James Watt.—My first Speech at the Royal Medical Society.—I study Oratory.—I found the Juvenile Literary Society. ..."

4. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"DSB i 173-83: -Joseph Black and Fixed Air. A Bicentenary Retrospective ... Joseph Black. Experiments apon Magnesia Alba. Quicklime, and Some Other ..."

5. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley (1815)
"... Dr. Joseph Black was born in France on the banks of the Garonne in the year 1728. His father, Mr. John Black, ..."

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