1800 ⟶ Alessandro Volta Creates the First Chemical Battery

Alessandro Volta devises the first chemical battery, thereby...
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🔋 Alessandro Volta Creates the First Chemical Battery

Alessandro Volta devises the first chemical battery, thereby founding the discipline of electrochemistry.⟶
Alessandro Volta Creates the First Chemical Battery (1800)
ElectrochemistryElectricityBatteryVoltaEnergy19th CenturyExperimentation
ItalyItaly

🧪 Hess's Law: Conservation of Energy in Chemical Processes

Germain Hess proposes Hess's law, an early statement of the law of conservation of energy, which establishes that energy changes in a chemical process depend only on the states of the starting and product materials and not on the specific pathway taken between the two states.⟶
Hess's Law: Conservation of Energy in Chemical Processes (1840)
ChemistryThermodynamicsEnergyConservation of EnergyHess's LawGermain Hess19th CenturyChemical Reactions
SwitzerlandSwitzerland