Which author wrote Conversations on Chemistry, a book that inspired Faraday?
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Jane Marcet
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Which author wrote Conversations on Chemistry, a book that inspired Faraday?
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Jane Marcet
What honorific after Faraday's name shows he was a Fellow of the Royal Society?
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FRS
Whose suggestions largely supplied Faraday's electrolysis terms such as anode and ion?
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William Whewell
Which carbon-chlorine compound did Faraday make by chlorinating ethylene?
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hexachloroethane
What phenomenon describes Faraday inducing current between two coils on an iron ring?
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mutual inductance
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Whose suggestions largely supplied Faraday's electrolysis terms such as anode and ion?
Answer
William Whewell
Which carbon-chlorine compound did Faraday make by chlorinating ethylene?
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hexachloroethane
What phenomenon describes Faraday inducing current between two coils on an iron ring?
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mutual inductance
Faraday's work around a current-carrying conductor helped establish what field concept?
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electromagnetic field
Which academy elected Faraday a Foreign Honorary Member in 1832?
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Which university granted Faraday an honorary Doctor of Civil Law in 1832?
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University of Oxford
On what date was Faraday appointed Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution?
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1 March 1813
What sensitive compound injured Davy and Faraday in an explosion?
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nitrogen trichloride
Who gave Faraday many tickets to Humphry Davy's lectures in 1812?
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William Dance
Which discussion society did young Faraday attend for lectures on science?
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City Philosophical Society