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Antoine Bussy
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<h2 id="education">Education</h2> <p>Antoine Bussy entered the <a href="/facts/%25C3%2589cole_Polytechnique/0DS7aMaR">École Polytechnique</a> in 1813, and there followed the courses delivered by <a href="/facts/Pierre-Jean_Robiquet/SNgXPP0n">Pierre Robiquet</a>, the great French chemist who was to make decisive breakthroughs in bio-chemistry (he isolated the first amino-acid ever identified, <a href="/facts/Asparagin/KYIft5Jd">asparagin</a>, in 1805–1806), in industrial dyes (he isolated and identified <a href="/facts/Alizarin/WBG6gj39">alizarin</a>, the most famous and first modern industrial red dye) and the pick-up of modern medication (he isolated, identified and started mass production of <a href="/facts/Codeine/lr7WHXmX">codeine</a>, 1832). Robiquet tutored Antoine Bussy in his career as a chemist researcher and in his private career as pharmacist as well.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> In 1828 Bussy published a preliminary notice of a new method of preparing <a href="/facts/Magnesium/XyIhd2FG">magnesium</a> by heating <a href="/facts/Magnesium_chloride/uk1f69LG">magnesium chloride</a> and <a href="/facts/Potassium/5lcumVgo">potassium</a> in a glass tube. When the <a href="/facts/Potassium_chloride/RgT2MdPa">potassium chloride</a> was washed out, small globules of magnesium remained.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> Wikimedia Commons has media related to . <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Beryllium | Properties, Uses, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2025-01-31. Retrieved 2025-02-13. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/beryllium" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/science/beryllium</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Bussy, Antoine (1841). "Antoine Bussy pronounced Robiquet's memorial elogium". Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessoires: 220–242. <a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k781598/f223.image" target="_blank">http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k781598/f223.image</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Bussy announced the isolation of magnesium in 1828: Bussy (1828). "Séance du 23 août" [Meeting of 23 August]. Journal de Chimie Médicale, de Pharmacie et de Toxicologie (in French). 4: 456–457. Bussy published a detailed report on his isolation of magnesium in 1831: Bussy (1831). "Mémoire sur le radical métallique de la magnésie" [Memoir on the metallic radical of magnesia]. Annales de chimie et de physique. 2nd series (in French). 46: 434–437. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036686627&seq=472" target="_blank">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036686627&seq=472</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>