RefNo | AP/6/3/3 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'Observation sur la manière de former l'alun par la combinaison directe de ses principes constituants' ['Observation on the way of forming alum through the direct combination of its constituent parts'] by [Jean Antoine Claude] Chaptal |
Date | [1789] |
Description | Chaptal's paper discusses ways in which alum is formed, including by combining clay and vitriolic acid [sulphuric acid], or through the decomposition of pyrite schist. He then describes a new, inexpensive method of fabricating alum.
Subject: Chemistry
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this essay, it was published in the Mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences in 1788: Chaptal, Jean Antoine Claude. 'Observation sur la manière de former l'alun par la combinaison directe de ses principes contituans'. Mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences, tome 10, 1788, pp 768-777. |
Language | French |
Extent | 13p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Chaptal, Jean Antoine Claude. 'Observation sur la manière de former l'alun par la combinaison directe de ses principes contituans'. Mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences, tome 10, 1788, pp 768-777. |
RelatedRecord | AP/6/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA5566 | Chaptal; Jean Antoine Claude (1756 - 1832) | 1756 - 1832 |