Definition of Ostwald

1. Noun. German chemist (1853-1932).

Exact synonyms: Wilhelm Ostwald
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostwald

Ostraciidae
Ostrava
Ostrea gigas
Ostreidae
Ostrobothnia
Ostrobothnian
Ostrobothnians
Ostrogoth
Ostrogothic
Ostrogoths
Ostrya
Ostrya carpinifolia
Ostrya virginiana
Ostryopsis
Ostwald (current term)
Ostwald's solubility coefficient
Ostwald's theory of indicators
Ostyak
Ostyak-Samoyed
Oswald
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Veblen
Oswaldo
Oswego teas
Ot3
Ota's nevus
Otago
Otaheite

Literary usage of Ostwald

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)
"Wilhelm Ostwald was born in Riga August 21, 1853, and entered the local Realschule in ... In 1871 Ostwald entered the University of Dorpat where he at first ..."

2. A New Era in Chemistry: Some of the More Important Developments in General by Harry Clary Jones (1913)
"Ostwald. — The most striking characteristic of Ostwald's genius is its many-sidedness. ... Ostwald realized what is given to so few to realize; that is, ..."

3. The True Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements and the Unity of Matter by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs (1894)
"Furthermore these limits are the only ones admitted in all subsequent calculations of Ostwald ; hence, this mean and its probable error affect all other ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"THE Kohlrausch-Ostwald method for determining the electrical conductivity of electrolytes by means of an alternating current and telephone is very accurate ..."

5. The Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation and Some of Its Applications by Harry Clary Jones (1900)
"The above experiment illustrates another point, as Ostwald has shown. ... Experiment of Ostwald and Nernst. — The experiment described above, ..."

6. The Electrical Conductivity and Ionization Constants of Organic Compounds: A by Heyward Scudder (1914)
"[It is probable that the following measurements, stated to have been made by Ostwald, were in many cases made by students in his laboratory and are ..."

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