| RefNo | AP/23/17/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'Experiments on the chemical constitution of several bodies which undergo the vinous fermentation and on certain results of that chemical action' by Robert Rigg |
| Date | 1839 |
| Description | Rigg outlines four key goals of his paper: 'first, that sugar is not constituted of carbon and water only; secondly, that during the vinous fermentation water is decomposed; thirdly, that neither pure carbonic acid nor alcohol is, in the common acceptation of the term, the product of this chemical action; and fourthly, that fermented liquors owe some of their valuable qualities to peculiar products formed during fermentation.'
Includes a diagram in the text showin Rigg's apparatus for experiments on vinous fermentation.
Subject: Organic chemistry
Communicated by the Rev J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Experiments on the chemical constitution of several bodies which undergo the vinous fermentation, and on certain results of the chemical action'. |
| Extent | 54p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0072 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2965 | Reade; Joseph Bancroft (1801 - 1870) | 1801 - 1870 |
| NA2868 | Rigg; Robert (1792 - 1861); chemist | 1792 - 1861 |