BALARD, J.A. (ANTOINE JÉROME) - FUNDAMENTALS OF BLEACHING WITH CHLORINE.

Researches concerning the Nature of Bleaching Compounds of Chlorine.

London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837. No wrappers. Extracted fron "Scientific Memoirs, selected from The Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies. Edited by Richard Taylor.", Vol. I, pp. 269-310.

First appearance in English of this importent paper in which Balard published the results of his study of the bleaching agent Javelle water. In the course of working out the chemistry of this chlorine bleach, he succeeded in preparing hypochlorous acid and chlorine monoxide. The memoir was published first in French in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 1834.

"In his researches on the bleaching compounds of chlorine he was the first to advance the view that bleaching-powder is a double compound of calcium chloride and hypochlorite; and he devoted much time to the problem of economically obtaining soda and potash from seawater, though here his efforts were nullified by the discovery of the much richer sources of supply afforded by the Stassfurt deposits."(Online Encyclopedia")

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