Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ551233
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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Charles H. Winston and Confederate Sulfuric Acid.
Riethmiller, Steven
Journal of Chemical Education, v72 n7 p575-77 Jul 1995
Describes the invention and use of a sulfuric acid chamber by Charles Henry Winston during the Civil War. This invention helped supply munitions for the South. Winston, who was President of the Richmond Female Institute in Virginia, constructed the chamber at his farm and was granted a patent by the Confederate Patent Office in 1863. (PVD)
Descriptors: Acids, Biographies, Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, Civil War (United States), Mining, Oxidation, Science History
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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