The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.
-- Wilhelm Ostwald
   
Wilhelm Ostwald   Name:
Wilhelm Ostwald
Type:
Scientist
Nationality:
German
Birth:
September 2, 1853
Death:
April 4, 1932
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