Vodka was discovered around the year 1893 in Russia, under the name of "aguinha" (vodka in Russian). The person responsible for the feat was none other than the renowned scientist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. At the time, a professor at the University of St. Petersburg, researched the most appropriate formula for the drink.
To arrive at the ideal formula, Mendeleev devoted himself for a year to the task of judiciously mixing water and alcohol in different proportions. Mendeleev arrived at the perfect composition for vodka: 40% alcohol and 60% water. The so-called Russian Vodka is registered by law, the formula proposed by the scientist.
Professor Mendeleev has become a very distinguished figure in Russia, so much so that he is seen as the great chemist, author of the drink at the Vodka Museum in Moscow. Among Mendeleev's achievements is an important work: the organization of the Periodic Table, as he was the scientist that, in the midst of trying to find a way to organize the elements, he arrived at a table, and that's where the current.
It is worth remembering that Mendeleev was also responsible for organizing the Periodic Table. He related atomic mass to the properties of elements, and in 1869, the 1st Periodic Table of Elements appeared.
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By Líria Alves
Graduated in Chemistry
Brazil School Team
Chemistry Curiosities - Chemistry - Brazil School
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