Joseph Wilbrand

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Joseph Wilbrand was a German chemist. He discovered trinitrotoluene in 1863, but the compound's use as an explosive was not developed until later.

In 1863, he made a breakthrough in field of thermo chemistry by inventing trinitrotoluene or TNT which was obtained by the nitration of toluene.In 1860, the Prussian E.Schulz aimed at making an agent siles. But later on he found the procedure to be too complicated. Even then, his finding were useful in the research of propellants in the field of astronautics.

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