Chemistry
- Methyl isocyanate is discovered.
- Henri-Louis Le Chatelier states that the response of a chemical system perturbed from equilibrium will be to counteract the perturbation.
- Emil Fischer establishes the relation between glucose, fructose and mannose by passage to a common osazone.
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