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Charles Tennant's St. Rollox Chemical Works in 1831. In 1800, Tennant founded a chemical works at St. Rollox, Glasgow. [6] The principal product being bleaching powder (calcium hypochlorite), which was sold worldwide. By 1815 the business was known as Charles Tennant & Co. and had expanded into other chemicals, metallurgy and explosives. The ...
Charles Tennant and Charles Macintosh developed an industrial process in the late 18th century for the manufacture of chloride of lime, patenting it in 1799. [4] Tennant's process is essentially still used today, [4] [3] and became of military importance during World War I, because calcium hypochlorite was the active ingredient in trench ...
The chemist Charles Macintosh was the fourth partner. [9] The new factory was at St Rollox in North Glasgow, close to the Monkland Canal that enabled it to transport coal and ironstone from the coal mines in Lanarkshire. [3] In October 1838, Charles Tennant died and his son John Tennant (1796–1878) became general manager of the company. [10]
The firm had its origins in chemical manufacturing when in 1811, Charles Tennant and Co of St Rollox, Glasgow established an associated company, C. Tennant Sons and Co Ltd, as "Bleaching powder manufacturers". The firm's driving force as it evolved into a merchant bank was Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet (1823-1906).
Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product ... Scottish chemist and industrialist Charles Tennant proposed in 1798 a solution of ... Charles Griffin & Co ...
This chlorine-releasing compound is the most common bleaching and disinfection compound. A dilute (3–6%) aqueous solution in water, historically known as Eau de Labarraque or "Labarraque's water", [17] is widely marketed as a household cleaning product, under the name "liquid bleach" or simply "bleach".
Sir Charles Tennant was a global industrialist, with business across many continents in railways, steel, explosives, copper, sulphur and merchant banking. [4] Tennant served as President of the United Alkali Company which would become a cornerstone of Imperial Chemical Industries becoming extremely wealthy in the process while being a supporter ...
This category is for the descendants, and their spouses, of Charles Tennant (1768–1838), the Scottish chemist and industrialist, who discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty. Pages in category "Tennant family"