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discovery by Leblanc
In Nicolas Leblanc …who in 1790 developed the process for making soda ash (sodium carbonate) from common salt (sodium chloride). This process, which bears his name, became one of the most important industrial-chemical processes of the 19th century. Read More
preparation of sodium carbonate
In alkali The Leblanc process dominated world production until late in the 19th century, but following World War I it was completely supplanted by another salt-conversion process that had been perfected in the 1860s by Ernest Solvay of Belgium. Late in the 19th century, electrolytic methods for the… Read More
In chemical industry: The Leblanc process The first step in the Leblanc process was to treat sodium chloride with sulfuric acid. This treatment produced sodium sulfate and hydrogen chloride. The sodium sulfate was then heated with limestone and coal to produce black ash, which contained the desired sodium carbonate,… Read More
replacement by ammonia–soda process
In Ernest Solvay …19th century had supplanted the Leblanc process, which had been chiefly used for converting common salt into sodium carbonate since the 1820s. Read More
