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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theophile-Jules Pelouze |
 | | In 1848 he was made president of the Mint Commission, and in 1849 became a member of the Municipal Commission at Paris. |
 | | His work with Liebig included investigations on oenanthic ether, tannic acid, stearin, sugar, etc., and with Frémy, Cahours, and Gélis, on a series on vegetable acids, including mallic and gallic acids, and on petroleum and butyric fermentation. |
 | | He was the first to synthesize a fatty substance from glycerine and an acid; to isolate tannic acid; to identify beet-root and cane-sugar as being the same; and to make gun-cotton or nitrocellulose in France. |
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