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Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (/kroonstet/ 23 December 1722 – 19 August 1765) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered the element nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines.
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (born Dec. 23, 1722, Turinge, Sweden—died Aug. 19, 1765, Säter) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist noted for his work on the chemistry of metallic elements and for his efforts to establish a new mineralogical system.
Dec 23, 2022 · Cronstedt was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who lived from 1722 to 1765. He used blowpipes to analyze minerals, discovered nickel and named it, and coined the term zeolite.
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Baron (äk´səl frā´drĬk, krōōn´stĕt), 1722–65, Swedish mineralogist and chemist. In 1751 he discovered in niccolite an impure form of nickel, reported it as a newly discovered element, and proposed the name nickel for it.
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. 1722-1765. Swedish chemist famous for discovering nickel (1751). Cronstedt established systematic blowpipe analysis, which he applied to the examination of minerals.
Dec 23, 1999 · Today is the birthday of Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, a Swedish chemist born in 1722 who is best known for his discovery of nickel and his mineral classification scheme. In 1751, Cronstedt described a new mineral he called kupfernickel, or "demon copper," after the copper color of nickel ore.
Axel F. Cronstedt (1722–1765), famous Swedish mineralogist, was the first scientist to describe, 250 years ago, the distinctive property of zeolites, i.e., the unique frothing characteristics...
