Talk:Henri Moissan

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When prepared, it immediately reacted with anything around it and vanished again. Even gold was not impervious to the attacks of elemental fluorine.

--SlipperyHippo 02:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Nickel can be used for apparatus handling elemental fluorine. A passivation layer of nickel fluoride develops on the surface - like oxide layers for example on aluminium. --SlipperyHippo 02:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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Cause of death: Methyl Isocyanide?
From Max Gergel's autobiographical Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (Pierce Chemical Co., 1979), page 116, about the preparation of methyl isocyanide:


 * "Dr. Bigelow," I asked, "why is there such a hiatus between Moissan's work with this methyl isocyanide and your requirement? Why is there such a paucity of literature references?" "It's the toxicity, Gergel", was his cheerful reply. "Didn't you know that methyl isocyanide is one of the worst poisons known? It killed Moissan."


 * ("Dr. Bigelow" = Lucius A. Bigelow (1892-1973), Professor of Chemistry, Duke University, 1929-1961.)

AdderUser (talk) 12:22, 16 April 2013 (UTC)


 * We need a more serious source. What I've seen is it was appendicitis.  But if we really get into the topic, we can investigate this.  He was actually seriously sick from HF poisoning before discovering F2 for instance.

The Jewish thing
I left the "cn" that some gnome dropped in. Surfing the net, can find some definite stuff saying he was Jewish, but not clear if only on one side (or if Sephardic). If we get into the bio, we can go over this stuff.TCO (talk) 14:02, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Can we please remove the Jewish category from Moissan. He was not Jewish or, at the very least, there is no evidence for this assertion. In addition, sources who claim he was Jewish fail to cite sources or any details other than to state categorically that he was Jewish. He was, in fact, Catholic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pezzos (talk • contribs) 17:37, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

"botanist Vasque"
Who is this Parisian "botanist Vasque" mentioned only here and in mirrored text on the Internet?Wetman (talk) 14:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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Hello fellow Wikipedians, I have rewritten substantial portions of this article, and added several references, but there remain a significant number of unsourced statements predating this edit that I have left alone. If you have the time to verify those and add inline citations, please take the time to do so. I also removed "alma mater" since Moissan received significant training from several institutions, none of which feel like they qualify as one, and corrected his doctoral advisor, with reference. While it appears he did complete a these under Dehérain, it wasn't his doctoral thesis. -- SoloBear 89  03:59, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: General Chemistry I
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