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|    21 Oct 18 17:09:16    |
      From: dfreemans@live.com              On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 4:21:53 PM UTC-4, Debra Dee McQueen Freeman       wrote:       > On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 1:34:57 AM UTC-4, dav...@agent.com wrote:       > > Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (1838–1922) was a Belgian chemist,        > > industrialist and philanthropist.       > >        > > Born at Rebecq, he was prevented by acute pleurisy from going to       > > university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of       > > 21.       > >        > > In 1861, he developed the ammonia-soda process for the manufacturing       > > of soda ash (anhydrous sodium carbonate) from brine (as a source of       > > sodium chloride) and limestone (as a source of calcium carbonate). The       > > process was an improvement over the earlier Leblanc process.       > >        > > He founded the company Solvay & Cie and established his first factory       > > at Couillet (now merged into Charleroi, Belgium) in 1863 and further       > > perfected the process until 1872, when he patented it. Soon, Solvay       > > process plants were established in the United Kingdom, the United       > > States, Germany and Austria. Today, about 70 Solvay process plants are       > > still operational worldwide.       > >        > > The exploitation of his patents brought Solvay considerable wealth,       > > which he used for philanthropic purposes, including the establishment       > > in 1894 of the "Institut des Sciences Sociales" (ISS) or Institute for       > > Sociology at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the       > > Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel), as       > > well as International Institutes for Physics and Chemistry. In 1903,       > > he founded the Solvay Business School which is also part of the Free       > > University of Brussels. In 1911, he began a series of important       > > conferences in physics, known as the Solvay Conferences, whose       > > participants included luminaries such as Max Planck, Ernest       > > Rutherford, Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Henri Poincaré, and (then only 32       > > years old) Albert Einstein. A later conference would include Niels       > > Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Erwin Schrödinger.       > >        > > He was twice elected to the Belgian Senate for the Liberal Party and       > > granted honorary title of Minister of State at the end of his life.       > > Solvay, New York and Rosignano Solvay, the locations of the first       > > Solvay process plants in the United States and in Italy, are also       > > named after him.       > >        > > Solvay died at Ixelles at the age of 84 and is interred there in the       > > Ixelles Cemetery.       >        >        > Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay =       >        > Joy re gent's soap ash solvent.              One EGJS try? Soap ash solvent.              EGJS' novelty rest on? Soap ash.              EGJS, notes, try? Novel soap ash.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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