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Hermann Lux
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<h2 id="achievements">Achievements</h2> <ul><li>Discovered a method of quantitative determination of 1 ppm quantities of <a href="/facts/Mercury_(element)/WlxfoHva">mercury</a> (1931, together with Alfred Stock)</li> <li>Extensively studied chemical reactions in <a href="/facts/Molten_salt/b1vjSkwP">molten salts</a>, leading up to the <a href="/facts/Acid%E2%80%93base_reaction/z8pbL0X8">Lux–Flood acid–base theory</a> (1937)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>Invented the "hanging melt" method which made it possible to study extremely aggressive molten salt systems, such as alkali oxides.</li> <li>Investigated salts of metals in unusual <a href="/facts/Oxidation_state/W53W6s6V">oxidation states</a>, such as bivalent <a href="/facts/Chromium/6sVk6Uu7">chromium</a> or pentavalent <a href="/facts/Manganese/j9ELd1TL">manganese</a>.</li> <li>Published a number of books including "Anorganisch-chemische Experimentierkunst" (<i>Inorganic-chemical experimental art</i>) and "Praktikum der quantitativen anorganischen Analyse" (<i>Practical course of the quantitative inorganic analysis</i>) which were translated into many languages and used by many analytic chemists.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.de/s?search-type=ss&index=books-de&field-author=Hermann%20Lux">Books by Hermann Lux on amazon.de</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Lux, Hermann (1939). ""Säuren" und "Basen" im Schmelzfluss: Die Bestimmung der Sauerstoffionen-Konzentration". Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie. 45 (4): 303–309. doi:10.1002/bbpc.19390450405. ISSN 0372-8323. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Flood, H.; Forland, T. (1947). "The Acidic and Basic Properties of Oxides". Acta Chem. Scand. 1 (6): 592–604. doi:10.3891/acta.chem.scand.01-0592. PMID 18907702. <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A5kon_Flood" target="_blank">/wiki/H%C3%A5kon_Flood</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>