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Justus von Liebig, a German chemist born on May 12, 1803, and died on April 18, 1873, is considered one of the founders of organic chemistry. He made significant contributions to the development of agricultural chemistry and food science.

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“We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.”

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Book:Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner

Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner

“There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.”

“A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with the salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.”

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Book:Chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology: By Justus Liebig. Edited from the manuscript of the author by Lyon Playfair

Source: Chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology: By Justus Liebig. Edited from the manuscript of the author by Lyon Playfair