| P number: | P528106 |
|---|---|
| Caption: | Bottle of sulphate of ammonia, an original product of the Scottish oil-shale industry. |
| Description: | The sulphate of ammonia is an original sample from the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited at Mid-Calder, a leading company in the former Scottish oil-shale industry. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7714. Sulphate of ammonia is an end product that was marketed as a fertilizer. It is recorded that it sold for #15 per ton in 1912 and that the price obtained covered the whole cost of mining the oil-shale. It was a distillate derived from the ammonia still, the distillate was drawn off to a saturator box containing sulphuric acid. The ammonia and sulphuric acid combine to form sulphate of ammonia. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 97.46 KB; 718 x 1000 pixels; 61 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 190 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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