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German chemist (1839–1906)
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. Wilbrand obtained trinitrotoluene or TNT by the
nitration of
toluene.
References
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a
b Familienarchiv Familie Wilbrand O13, Nr. 139, Hessisches Landesmuseum
Darmstadt.
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^
Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, Bd. 128, 1863, S. 178-179.
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^ G. Carlton Smith: TNT. Trinitrotoluenes and Mono- and Dinitrotoluenes, Their Manufacture and Properties, New York 1918, S. 17-18.
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