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Brugnatelli, Luigi Valentino

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BRUGNATELLI, LUIGI VALENTINO. - Born in Pavia on 14 Feb. 1761, died there on 24 Aug. 1818, he was regarded as one of the foremost chemists of his time.

To him are owed the first applications of Volta's battery to chemistry and the invention of electro-gilding, which gave rise to electroplating. He studied gastric juice, saliva, calculi, uric acid, cork, suberic acid, potato starch, wheat starch, dextrin, gluten, fibrin and casein. He founded the Annali di Chimica (Pavia 1790-1808) and the Giornale di Fisica, Chimica e Storia Naturale (ibid. 1808-27). Noteworthy are his Elementi di Chimica (ibid. 1795-97) and the Farmacopea Generale, which was translated into French (Paris 1811).

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BIBL.: I. Guareschi, Supplemento annuale all'Enciclopedia chimica, 28 (1912), p. 404; G. Provenzal, Profilo di chimici italiani, Rome 1938, pp. 90-95; M. Giua, Storia della Chimica, Turin 1946, p. 89.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 136.

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Provenzal, Giulio. “Brugnatelli, luigi valentino.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 136. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/brugnatelli-luigi-valentino.

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Provenzal, Giulio. “Brugnatelli, luigi valentino.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 136. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/brugnatelli-luigi-valentino.

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  author    = {Provenzal, Giulio},
  title     = {Brugnatelli, luigi valentino},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {136},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/brugnatelli-luigi-valentino}
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