| The American chemist C. James performed 15,000 recrystallizations before pure thulium bromate was obtained. |
| She worried briefly that this might be a problem, but she was certain that drugs freely available from her chemist could not be addictive. |
| The great English chemist and physicist Sir Humphry Davy first prepared a sample of pure sodium metal by electrolyzing molten sodium chloride. |
| He thought about walking to the chemist but the rain was still bucketing down. |
| The first synthetic dye, mauve, was prepared in 1856 by the English chemist William Henry Perkin. |
| Her weapon of choice was arsenic or strychnine, poison which she bought from a chemist in Turffontein. |
