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Claude Louis Berthollet participated with Antoine Lavoisier, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, and Antoine-François de Fourcroy in the 1787 reform of chemical nomenclature. The resulting tables and dictionary linked older names with a systematic description of simple substances and their compounds, helping readers translate between competing chemical vocabularies.^[ref]

Figure 1.
Portrait of Claude Louis Berthollet
. Allais, after Dutertre, after Rembrandt Peale; Wellcome Library, London / Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.

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