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VI.—On the Extraction of pure Phosphoric Acid from Bones, and on a new and anomalous Phosphate of Magnesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

William Gregory Esq.
Affiliation:
Professor of Chemistry in theUniversity of Edinburgh.

Extract

The usual methods of obtaining pure phosphoric acid by the oxidation, with nitric acid, or by combustion, of pure phosphorus, are well known; but, although they yield a pure product, yet, as the phosphorus must be prepared from phosphoric acid, it is obvious that we shall derive a great advantage from any method of purifying easily and cheaply the phosphoric acid from bones, instead of first reducing it to phosphorus, and then re-oxidizing it. In practice, phosphorus is made from the superphosphate of lime, and it is from the same salt that phosphoric acid may be most economically prepared.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1845

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