Frederick Abel
Chemist, Academic
1827 – 1902
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Who was Frederick Abel?
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet FRS (17 July 1827–6 September 1902) was an English chemist and inventor who developed explosives. As a chemist to the War Department, he introduced a method of making gun-cotton and was joint-inventor with James Dewar of cordite. He also unvented the Abel close-test instrument for determining the flash point (ignition temperature) of petroleum.
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