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Paper, an account of English alum works by Daniel Colwall

Reference number: CLP/9i/3

Date: 1661

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Describes the process used at the works for making alum. 'Allum [Alum, aluminium sulfate] is made of a Stone digged out of a Mine, of a Seaweed, and of Urine; The Mine of stone is found in most of the Hills betweene Scarborough and the River of Tees in the County of Yorke, and also neare Preston in Lancashire'. States that 'snake stones' were found with the blue stones that make alum.

Read to the Royal Society 11 August 1661

Subject: Geology / Mineralogy / Chemistry / Industry

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CLP/9i/3
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1661
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8 pages
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Daniel Colwall

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Daniel Colwall, Paper, an account of English alum works by Daniel Colwall, 1661, CLP/9i/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_3/paper-an-account-of-english-alum-works-by-daniel-colwall, accessed on 13 October 2024

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