soda process
61Alkali manufacture — This is a historical article. For current information see Sodium hydroxide#Manufacture and Chloralkali process. Alkali manufacture is the process by which an alkali is made. Typical alkalis, produced commercially, include sodium hydroxide, sodium …
62alkali — /al keuh luy /, n., pl. alkalis, alkalies, adj. n. 1. Chem. a. any of various bases, the hydroxides of the alkali metals and of ammonium, that neutralize acids to form salts and turn red litmus paper blue. b. any of various other more or less… …
63Solvay , Ernest — (1838–1922) Belgian industrial chemist Solvay was born at Rebecq Rognon in Belgium. As the son of a salt refiner and the nephew of a manager of a gas plant, he was introduced at an early age to the techniques and problems of the chemical industry …
64technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
65ammonia — /euh mohn yeuh, euh moh nee euh/, n. Chem. 1. a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water soluble, gaseous compound, NH3, usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the… …
66Ernest Solvay — Infobox Scientist name = Ernest Solvay box width = image width =150px caption = Ernest Solvay (c1900) birth date = 16 April 1838 birth place = Rebecq death date = 26 May 1922 death place = Ixelles residence = citizenship = nationality = Belgian… …
67Burgess, Hugh — ▪ American inventor born c. 1825, , Reading, Berkshire, Eng. died Feb. 23, 1892, Atlantic City, N.J., U.S. British born American inventor who, with Charles Watt, developed the soda process used to turn wood pulp into paper. Little is… …
68James Muspratt — Infobox Scientist name = James Muspratt box width = image width = caption = James Muspratt birth date = August 12 1793 birth place = Dublin, Ireland death date = May 4 1886 death place = Lancashire, England residence = Dublin, Merseyside… …
69William Gossage — Infobox Scientist name = William Gossage image width = 220px caption = William Gossage birth date = birth date|1799|5|12 birth place = Burgh le Marsh, Lincolnshire, England death date = death date and age|1877|4|9|1799|5|12 death place = Dunham… …
70Solvay, Ernest — ▪ Belgian chemist born , April 16, 1838, Rebecqu Rognon, near Brussels, Belg. died May 26, 1922, Brussels Belgian industrial chemist, best known for his development of a commercially viable ammonia soda process for producing soda ash… …
