Dübereiner, JOHANN WOLFGANG (1780-1849), professor of Chemistry in Jena, and friend of Goethe, is remembered for what is called Dübereiner's Lamp, a piece of platinum sponge which ignites a jet of a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen or of common air directed on it.
Dübereiner, JOHANN WOLFGANG
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 28
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