Geochemical prospecting / Геохимические поиски

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The history of geochemistry dates far back bringing to one’s mind the names of the ancient philosophers such as Democritus, Titus Lucrecius Carus and brilliant thinkers of 18th century—Georges Buffon, Mikhail V. Lomonosov, Antoine Lavoisier. We owe the term geochemistry (1842) to the Swiss scientist Christian Friedrich Schonbein. To commemorate the name of the American geochemist F.W. Clarke (1847-1931) in the USSR a science unit, named “clarke” is used to define the average abundance of chemical elements in the geospheres. He earned this honour much as did the Italian Alessandro Volta, the French scientist Ampere, the Britons Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm and other outstanding natural scientists of the past. <...>