Liebig
[li:big]
Definition
n. a nutritious extract of beef first prepared by the great German chemist Baron von Liebig (1803-1873).
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Examples
- Returning in July, 1870, from a visit to Liebig at Munich, Pasteur heard at Strasburg of the imminence of war. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Chloral-hydrate discovered by Liebig. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Davy, Scheele, Dumas, Balard, Liebig, W?hler, and a number of other distinguished ch emists, were apothecaries' apprentices. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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