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Janos Irinyi

aka: János, Irínyi

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1817, May 18	1895, Dec 17

a Hungarian chemist and inventor of the noiseless and non-explosive match. He achieved this by mixing the phosphorus with lead dioxide instead of the potassium chlorate used previously. Irinyi also took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

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