Samuel Parkes (chemist)

Samuel Parkes (chemist)

Samuel Parkes (c. 1759–1825) was a British manufacturing chemist.

He published manuals of chemistry between 1806 and 1815.

His work of popular science, the "Chemical Catechism", includes poetical descriptions of chemical processes. Here is his description of plant respiration:

:Thus while the vegetable tribes inhale:The limpid water from the parent vale,:Their vegetating organs decompose:The salutary compound as it flows,:And, by affinities unknown disport:The subtle hydrogen, with chemic art:To blend it with the carbon of the soil,:And form bitumen, resin, wax, or oil:,:The free'd caloric bursts the expanding mass,:And swells the nascent oxygen to gas;:Which, from its inmost cells, each leaflet pours:In viral currents through its myriad pores,:To renovate the air, by tempests hurl'd:From pole to pole, around a freshen'd world.


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