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| December 24 in chemistry |
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 1745 - Benjamin Rush born: signer of Declaration of Independence; published first American chemistry textbook. |
| 1818 - James Prescott Joule born: thermodynamics; mechanical equivalent of heat; Joule-Thomson effect (temperature of gas falls when the gas expands without doing work); kinetic theory of gases. |
| 1834 - Augustus Vernon-Harcourt born: invented standard 10-candlepower lamp using pentane. |
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