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Paper, 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts' by John Hall Gladstone

Reference number: AP/40/5

Date: 1857

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Gladstone aims to identify what specific chemical action water exerts on a salt. He reports that his experiments have not led to any conclusive results.

Marked on front as 'For the Proceedings'.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 19 November 1857. Read 10 December 1857.

A version of this paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts'.

A version of this paper was published by Gladstone in the Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London: Gladstone, John Hall. 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts.' The Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, volume 11, number 1 (1859), pp. 36-49.

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AP/40/5
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1857
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8 pages
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John Hall Gladstone, Paper, 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts' by John Hall Gladstone, 1857, AP/40/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_40_5/paper-on-the-chemical-action-of-water-on-soluble-salts-by-john-hall-gladstone, accessed on 05 October 2024

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