Ostwald

Ostwald may refer to:

* Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, the physico-chemist (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1909) # Ostwald's rule of polymorphism: in general, the least stable polymorph crystallizes first # The Ostwald Process, a synthesis method for making nitric acid from ammonia # Ostwald ripening, a crystallization effect # Ostwald color system * Wolfgang Ostwald, chemist and biologist, son of Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald. He studied colloids * Martin Ostwald, a German-American classical scholar * Ostwald (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon * Ostwald, Bas-Rhin, a commune in the Bas-Rhin ''département'' in France Provided by Wikipedia