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==Chemistry== * [[Michael Faraday]] isolates [[benzene]] as ''Bicarburet of Hydrogen''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Faraday|first=M.|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k559209/f473.image|title=On New Compounds of Carbon and Hydrogen, and on Certain Other Products Obtained during the Decomposition of Oil by Heat|journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London]]|volume=115|date=1825-06-16|pages=440–466|doi=10.1098/rstl.1825.0022|jstor=107752|access-date=2012-09-25|doi-access=free|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=R.|last=Kaiser|title='Bicarburet of Hydrogen': Reappraisal of the Discovery of Benzene in 1825 with the Analytical Methods of 1968|journal=[[Angewandte Chemie]]|edition=International|volume=7|issue=5|year=1968|pages=345–350|doi=10.1002/anie.196803451}}</ref> * [[Hans Christian Ørsted]] reduces [[aluminium chloride]] to produce metallic [[aluminium]] in an impure form. * [[Friedrich Wöhler]] and [[Justus von Liebig]] perform the first confirmed discovery and explanation of [[isomers]], earlier named by Berzelius. Working with cyanic acid and fulminic acid, they correctly deduce that isomerism is caused by differing arrangements of atoms within a molecular structure.<ref name="CHF">{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/justus-von-liebig-and-friedrich-w%C3%B6hler|title=Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler|work=Science History Institute|date=June 2016}}</ref><ref name=Bowden>{{cite book|last1=Bowden|first1=Mary Ellen|title=Chemical achievers : the human face of the chemical sciences|url=https://archive.org/details/chemicalachiever0000bowd|url-access=registration|date=1997|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation|location=Philadelphia, PA|isbn=9780941901123|chapter=Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler|pages=[https://archive.org/details/chemicalachiever0000bowd/page/83 83–87]}}</ref>
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