One of America’s first female professional chemists and the first woman to be accepted by a scientific school, Ellen H. Swallow Richards is best known ... Richards developed an interest in chemistry ...

hydrogen is insoluble in water, so can collect it using a gas jar in a trough of water. dilute hydrochloric acid reacts vigorously with magnesium and can be dangerous.

The Department of Chemistry at Purdue University has earned national and world-wide honors. Purdue's own Dr. Herbert C. Brown, along with Georg Wittig from the University of Hedelberg in Germany, was ...