Chlorine disinfectants

✍ Scribed by J.S.H.

• Book ID: 104128747
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1932
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 214
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(32)91233-2

✦ Synopsis

describes the plant-like structures obtained by introduction of a crystal of a soluble salt of certain metals into a solution obtained by mixing I volume of sodium silicate (water glass, specific gravity approximately 1.4) with 3 or 4 volumes of distilled water. The color of the structure varies with the cation, being white with lead, magnesium, zinc, and aluminium, bright yellow with uranyl, green with nickel, purplish blue with cobalt, greenish blue with bivalent copper, reddish brown with ferric iron, white changing to green with ferrous iron, and white changing to light brown with bivalent manganese.