Walter Weldon
Walter Weldon FRS FRSE (31 October 183220 September 1885) was a 19th-century English industrial chemist and journalist. He was President of the Society of Chemical Industry 1883/84.
Life
He was born in Loughborough on 31 October 1832, the son ...
developed a process in the
chlorine
Chlorine is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate betwee ...
production process for reuse of
manganese by treating the manganese chloride with milk of
lime and blowing air through the mixture to form a
precipitation of
manganese known as Weldon mud which was used to generate more
chlorine
Chlorine is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate betwee ...
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Chlorine
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