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An Explanation of the Effect of Lime upon Alkaline Salts

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  • Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
    In Joseph Black: Industrial consultant

    …concerning an industrial process, “An Explanation of the Effect of Lime upon Alkaline Salts,” which was published in Home’s Experiments on Bleaching (1771). Another approach to the bleaching problem was to look for a cheaper way of making potash. Cullen turned his mind to this and was rewarded by…

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