Hilaire de Chardonnet
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Hilaire de Chardonnet
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Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Grange, Count (Comte) de Chardonnet was a French engineer and industrialist from Besançon, and inventor of artificial silk. In the late 1870s, Chardonnet was working with Louis Pasteur on a remedy to the epidemic that was destroying French silkworms. Failure to clean up a spill in the darkroom resulted in Chardonnet's discovery of nitrocellulose as a potential replacement for real silk. Realizing the value of such a discovery, Chardonnet began to develop his new
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French engineer, inventor of artificial silk (1839–1924)
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2024-01-26T20:03:36Z
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