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Pierre Macquer
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<h2 id="works">Works</h2> <ul><li>1756: <a href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OsgZhewj_zMC/page/n5/mode/2up">Elemens de Chymietheoretique</a></li> <li>1766: <a href="https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireport01macq_0/page/n6/mode/2up">Dictionnaire portatif des arts et metiers, volume 1</a></li> <li>1766: <a href="https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireport01macq_0/page/n6/mode/2up">Dictionnaire portatif des arts et metiers, volume 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8641373"><i>Elemens de chymie theorique</i></a> (in French). Paris: Jean Thomas Herissant (1.). 1749.</li> <li><a href="https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8626805"><i>Dictionnaire de chymie</i></a> (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Laurent Durand. 1766.</li> <li><a href="https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=8628752"><i>Dictionnaire de chymie</i></a> (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Jacques Lacombe. 1766.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.franklinpapers.org/franklin/bio?id=4864">Macquer, Pierre-Joseph (1718–1784)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Lehman, C. (2012), 'Pierre-Joseph Macquer an Eighteenth-Century Artisanal-Scientific Expert' Annals of Science <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Macquer (1752). "Éxamen chymique de bleu de Prusse" [Chemical examination of Prussian blue]. Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences …, § Mémoires de l'Académie royale des Sciences (in French): 60–77. From pp. 63-64: "Après avoir essayé ainsi inutilement de décomposer le bleu de Prusse par les acides, … n'avoit plus qu'une couleur jaune un peu rousse." (After having tried so vainly to decompose Prussian blue by acids, I made recourse to alkalies. I put a half ounce of this [Prussian] blue in a flask, and I poured on it ten ounces of a solution of nitre fixed by tartar [i.e., potassium nitrate (nitre) which is mixed with crude cream of tartar and then ignited, producing potassium carbonate]. As soon as these two substances had been mixed together, I saw with astonishment that, without the aid of heat, the blue color had entirely disappeared; the powder [i.e., precipitate] at the bottom of the flask had only a rather gray color: having put this vessel on a sand bath in order to heat the solution until it simmered, this gray color also disappeared entirely, and all that was contained in the flask, both the powder [i.e., precipitate] and the solution, had only a yellow color [that was] a little red.) <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88112#page/250/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88112#page/250/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Munroe, Charles E.; Chatard, Thomas M. (1902). "Manufactures: Chemicals and Allied Products". Twelfth Census of the United States: Bulletins (210): 1–306.; see p. 31. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8UIUAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA31" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=8UIUAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA31</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Macquer, P. J. (1775). Elements of the Theory and Practice of chymistry, trans. A. Reid, vol. 1. p. 12. 2 vols., London. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Liste des membres du passé de l'Académie <a href="http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-depuis-la-creation-de-l-Academie-des-sciences/les-membres-du-passe-dont-le-nom-commence-par-m.html" target="_blank">http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-depuis-la-creation-de-l-Academie-des-sciences/les-membres-du-passe-dont-le-nom-commence-par-m.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-31. <a href="https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Pierre+J.+Macquer&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced" target="_blank">https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Pierre+J.+Macquer&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>