Beilby

G. Beilby, Aggregation and Flow of Solids, Macmillan, New York, 1921. 

For several different viewpoints see (a) Beilby, A. L. J. Chem. Educ. 

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The Beilby process started in 1891 and by 1899 accounted for half of the total European production of cyanide. In this process, a fused mixture of sodium and potassium carbonates reacts with ammonia ia the presence of carbon. In 1900, the Castner process, in which molten sodium, ammonia, and charcoal react to give a high (98%) grade sodium cyanide, superseded the Beilby process. Sodium cyanide became an article of commerce and soon replaced potassium cyanide in all except special uses. 

Potassium cyanide was made by the Beilby process before the introduction of the neutralization or wet process. In the BeUby process, cyanide is made according to the following overall reaction ... 

Stockbruegger RW, Cotton PB, Menon GG, Beilby JOW, Bartholomew BA, Hill MJ, et al Pernicious anaemia, intragastric bacterial overgrowth, and possible consequences. Scand J Gastroenterol 1984 19 355—364. 

Beilby A process for making potassium cyanide by passing ammonia gas over a molten mixture of potassium carbonate, potassium cyanide, and carbon ... 

The fused product is poured into molds. The process was invented by G. T. Beilby in Scotland and first used in 1891 in 1900 it was replaced by the Castner process. 

Beilby MJ, Cherry C, Shepherd VA. Dual mechanisms of turgor regulation in Lam-prothamnium papulosum. Plant Cell Environ 1999 22 347-361. 

Beilby MJ, Shepherd VA. Cytoplasm-enriched fragments of Chara structure and electrophysiology. Protoplasma 1989 148 150-163. 

Soddy introduced the term, but it was Dr. Margaret Todd who coined it. This was done at a dinner party in 1913 at the home of Soddy s father-in-law. Sir George Beilby. A plaque on the house marks the occasion. 

A commercial process in which potassium may be regarded as a synthetic agent is Beilby s process for preparing cyanide, by heating a mixture of potassium carbonate and carbon in ammonia. 

Carbon electrode science [2] does not have as long a history as the carbon electrode technology [65,66], In a very early paper describing carbon electrodes, Beilby et al. [67] sounded surprised as they concluded that the problem of the nature of carbon surfaces will not be so simple as the problem for a metal since the properties of carbon and the nature of the surface can vary with the mode of preparation. Almost half a century later, we are not surprised any more, but perhaps surprisingly we remain puzzled by many of the same issues. 

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