Unpublished paper, 'On the rate of decomposition of chlorine-water by light' by G [George] Gore

Description

Gore investigates by means of the voltaic balance the kind and amount of chemical change, the rate at which decomposition proceeds, and the chemical composition of the products formed at all stages of decomposition of chlorine water, when exposed to daylight and sunlight in colourless glass vessels. He finds that the chlorine water, by exposure to diffused daylight, is decomposed with moderate uniformity, but at a gradually diminishing rate, as shown by the losses of voltaic energy, until no further loss of such energy occurrs; the liquid then consists of an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid, hypochlorous acid, and chloric acid.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 13 June 1889. Read 30 June 1889.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the rate of decomposition of chlorine-water by light'.

Reference number

AP/66/7

Earliest possible date

1889

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

18 pages

Format

Manuscript