Dossie, Robert

Dossie, Robert, Institutes of Experimental Chemistry, Vol. 1, J. Nourse,... 

Hermann Kopp found the earliest mention of the British process in Robert Dossie s Elaborately laid open m 1758. Dossie spoke only of glass receptacles for the acid (9). In his Institutes of Experimental Chemistry in the following year, he stated that this process had greatly lowered the price of oil of vitriol and had made possible the use of this acid in the preparation of aqua foitis (nitric acid) from saltpeter (7). 

In 1759 Robert Dossie corrected the false belief that sal ammoniac was found in the earth in Oriental countries only where the caravans had rested. But I know it to be an undoubted fact, said he, that sal Ammoniacus is sublimed in a considerable quantity out of 1he chinks or cracks of the earth, in the Sulfiterra (solfatara), near Naples. . . and it is certain, as the salt so sublimed must be raised from vast caverns which lie deep in the earth, its origin cannot be ascribed to the urine... 

For example, the third chapter of Robert Dossie s book The Laboratory Laid Open offered an [14] ... 

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