Unreferenced date September 2007 Pyrocollodion is a smokeless powder invented by Dmitri Mendeleev . Mendeleev discovered it in 1892 and proposed to use it to replace gunpowder in the Imperial Russian Navy Russian Navy . This offer was rejected because of cost and efficiency. Pyrocollodion is known to be spontaneous combustion spontaneously combustible , and explosive material explosive . When ignited, it will burn explode quickly, and with excessive heat output. If ignited in a tight, contained space, it will leave little to no remnants, such as unburned powder, particular kinds of flame scarring, or smoke of any kind. Pyrocollodion is a variant of nitrocellulose . External links http www.archive.org stream smokelesspowdern00bernrich smokelesspowdern00bernrich djvu.txt Category Firearm propellants Category 1892 introductions Category Russian inventions explosive stub lt Pirokolodijus ru ... more details
File Lomonosovportrait.jpg thumb 220px Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist, the founder of Moscow State University . This list of Russia n scientist s includes scientists associated with modern Russian Federation , the Soviet Union , Imperial Russia , Russian Tsardom , Grand Duchy of Moscow and other predecessor states of Russia. Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states as well as the people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia. Polymaths File Baer Karl von 1792 1876.jpg 100px thumb Karl Baer Baer Karl Ernst von Baer , polymath naturalist, formulated the geological Baer s law on river erosion and embryological Baer s laws , founder of the Russian Entomological Society , co founder of the Russian Geographical Society Alexander Borodin , chemist and composer, author of the famous opera Prince Igor , discovered Borodin reaction , co discovered Aldol reaction Alexander Chizhevsky , interdisciplinary scientist, biophysicist, philosopher and artist, founder of heliobiology and modern air ionification , Russian cosmist Johann Gottlieb Georgi , naturalist, chemist, mineralogist, ethnographer and explorer, the first to describe omul fish of Baikal , published the first full scale work on ethnography of indigenous peoples of Russia File Levitzky Lvov 1770.jpg thumb 95px Nikolay Lvov Lvov Mikhail Lomonosov , polymath scientist, artist and inventor founder of the Moscow State University proposed the law of conservation of matter disproved the phlogiston theory invented coaxial rotor and the first helicopter invented the night vision telescope and off axis reflecting telescope discovered the atmosphere of Venus suggested the organic matter organic origin of soil , peat , coal , petroleum and amber pioneered the research of atmospheric electricity coined the term physical chemistry the first to record the freezing of mercury element mercury co ... more details
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