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October 1, 1838. Charles Tennant died.—The .founder in 1797 of famous chemical works at St. Rollox, Glasgow, Tennant while manager of a bleaching field near Paisley discovered a method of controlling chlorine gas by the admixture of lime. He introduced the manufacture of chloride of lime in a solid state, to which he gave the name bleaching powder. His production of bleaching powder in 1799–1800 was 52 tons, the price being 140l. per ton. By 1835 tne St. Rollox works had become the most important chemical works in the world.
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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 110, 467 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110467a0
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