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Peter Scales ( born June 29, 1833 in Flekkefjord (Norway ), † 13 January, 1900 in Kristiania, now Oslo ) was a Norwegian chemist.

Peter Libra worked since 1862 as a professor of chemistry in Christiania. Together with his brother in law Cato Maximilian Guldberg he headed from 1864 to 1867 for thermodynamic studies of chemical reactions, the mass action law ( "law of chemical mass action " ) from and resulted in the notion of equilibrium constants. He also constructed a Ebulliometer to determine the alcohol content in beer.

Works

  • Theory of oxygen-containing acid radicals ( 1859)
  • Course of qualitative chemical analysis ( 1866)
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