Celebrating Two Centuries of Research in Selenium Chemistry: State of the Art and New Prospective

In 2017, the 200th anniversary of the discovery of selenium was celebrated. In 1817, the Swedish chemists, Berzelius and Gahn, on roasting 200 kg of sulfur from a pyrite from the Falun mine, obtained about 3 g of a precipitate that they first wrongly identified as tellurium. Berzelius doubted this r...

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Main Authors: Claudio Santi, Luana Bagnoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-12-01
Series:Molecules
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/22/12/2124