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I hope precipitate fatty acid and bleach it and at lowest chlorine prices this would be cheaper than to treat with an acid. I intend to try the same thing with suint lye. ^[[wool fat lye]] Pellew agreed to my proposal that we would try the process each one of us separately and if successful apply for common patent together.
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[[strikethrough]] Sept 20.[[/strikethrough]] From 2 PM to 4 P.M was at Spiegelberg's office where I met his brother too (the broker) and to whom I reported further of the condition of his brother. Washington's ^[[S]] business.
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Sept 21. It occurs to me that Pellew's process is unnecessarily complicated and the same results could be 
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obtained by the use of electric current putting tin in contact with a negative electrode of a generator [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] thus making it anodic while positive electrode of carbon could be suspended in H2O into which gaseous chlorine is fed. This would dispense with the introduction of Hg and further elimination of impurities in the prepared salt.
After trying I find that if electrolytic conditions favor solution the same end can be accomplished without.
Neither do I see much the advantage of addition of mercury salts.
Worked all day in lab till late.
Violent electric storm & pouring
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