Chevreul, Michel Eugène, a French chemist, born at Angers; an expert in the department of dyeing, and an authority on colours, as well as the chemistry of fats; was director in the dyeing department in the Gobelins manufactory; he lived to witness the centenary of his birth (1786‒1889).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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