From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 60
Summary:
Thinks "ozonised fluid" is a pure solution of permanganate of soda. Sends dosage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thinks "ozonised fluid" is a pure solution of permanganate of soda. Sends dosage.
J. C. Wickham and Arthur Mellersh are in town and BJS wonders whether there is any chance CD might join them.
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Quotes report of limitations in JW's new artillery shell for penetrating ironclad vessels. Recounts JH's [Apr. 1836] experiments at Cape of Good Hope to increase explosive power of gunpowder by adding [Luke] Howard's fulminating mercury.