An 1815 perspective of chlorine as a chemical agent used in bleaching - A section from James Rennie's essay on bleaching

Page, Frederick G.

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An 1815 perspective of chlorine as a chemical agent used in bleaching - A section from James Rennie's essay on bleaching

Author(s)

Page, Frederick G.

Issue Date

2009-09-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• History chlorine bleaching agent

Abstract

Among publications concerning the chem. properties and bleaching aspects of chlorine in early bleaching is included the anal. testing of bleaching solns., as described in a manuscript entitled 'An Essay on the Improvements in the Art of Bleaching by the Application of the Principles of Chem.' by James Rennie (1787-1867). The manuscript is held by Birmingham City Archives within the James Watt Collection, and it is thought to have been written in 1815-16, probably shortly before Rennie was awarded a first prize for this essay in the same period. In this present article, Rennie's section entitled 'Chlorine and its Compds.,' part of Chapter IV, 'Chem. Agents used in Bleaching,' has been fully transcribed; and it is within this chapter that Rennie covers his main chem. considerations within the entire essay.

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Division of the History of Chemistry

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1053-4385

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text

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article

Language

eng

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2009v034p124

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