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Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (22 August 1839 – 22 June 1906) was a German chemist. Born in Gießen to Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand and Albertine Knapp, [1] he discovered trinitrotoluene in 1863, [2] [3] but the compound's use as an explosive was not developed until later.
Apr 25, 2017 · The Invention of TNT. •••. Updated April 25, 2017. By DaVaun Sanders. The chemical compound trinitrotoluene -- or TNT as it is most commonly known -- was first created in 1863 by German chemist Joseph Wilbrand who was attempting to make a dye.
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Jan 11, 2023 · Julius Wilbrand conducted extensive experiments on nitro-toluene and eventually developed TNT. It is believed that Julius Wilbrand was the first person to synthesize TNT in the laboratory. He refined the process and created a stable form of the explosive compound.
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Sep 29, 2013 · His successor, as a prosector and a professor, was his pupil Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand (1811–1894). A year after Wernekinck’s death Wilbrand published a book on the anatomy and physiology of central structures of the nervous system (Wilbrand, 1840) [ 8 ], using Wernekinck’s dissected specimens of the human brain, completing them with ...
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Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (22 August 1839 – 22 June 1906) [1] was a German chemist. Born in Gießen to Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand and Albertine Knapp, [1] he discovered trinitrotoluene in 1863, [2] [3] but the compound's use as an explosive was not developed until later.
Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (22 August 1839 – 22 June 1906) was a German chemist. Born in Gießen to Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand and Albertine Knapp, he discovered trinitrotoluene in 1863, but the compound's use as an explosive was not developed until later. Wilbrand obtained trinitrotoluene or TNT by the nitration of toluene.
TNT was first synthesised by German chemist Julius Wilbrand in 1863 and initially used as a yellow dye. Germany began manufacturing the material in 1891 and three years later its army adopted ...