Ostwald

Ostwald may refer to:

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, the physico-chemist (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1909)

1. Ostwald's rule of polymorphism: in general, the least stable polymorph crystallizes first
2. The Ostwald Process, a synthesis method for making nitric acid from ammonia
3. Ostwald ripening, a crystallization effect
4. Ostwald color system
5. Ostwald's law of dilution

• 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

See also

• Oswald (disambiguation)
• Ozwald Boateng