AbstractsChemistry

The system: calcium oxalate - sulphuric acid

by Joseph Maple Wilson




Institution: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Department:
Year: 1927
Record ID: 1588277
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/17954


Abstract

"The manufacture of oxalic acid includes as one of the steps in the process, the conversion of calcium oxalate to the desired oxalic acid by treatment with sulphuric acid, and the subsequent crystalization [sic] of the oxalic acid from the solution of it thus made. This investigation has dealt with this conversion step, with regard to the various factors affecting it. The effect of time, acid concentration, temperature, volume of solution, solubility of reaction products, and possible compound formation have all been considered, and from the information thus gained the conclusion has been drawn" – Introduction, p. 1.