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unusual facts about Sodium sulfate


Zenker's fixative

Zenker is usually made with 50g of Mercuric chloride, 25g of Potassium dichromate, 10g of Sodium sulfate (decahydrate) and distilled water to complete 1000 ml.


Geoffrey Wilkinson

One of his uncles, an organist and choirmaster, had married into a family that owned a small chemical company making Epsom and Glauber's salts for the pharmaceutical industry; this is where he first developed an interest in chemistry.


see also

Mina, Nevada

Thenardite, a sodium sulfate mineral, Na2SO4, found at Sodaville