Edward Adam (b. in

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population ...

on 11 October 1768, d. in Montpellier on 11 November 1807Place Édouard Adam
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(consulté le 2 novembre 2018)) was a French chemist who, beginning in 1800 while studying at Montpellier, invented various

still A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor. A still uses the same concepts as a basic distillation apparatus, but on a much larger scale. Stills have been u ...

modifications to improve chemical rectification, upon which the industrialization of the manufacture of

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, etc., has since been based.

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