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His production of sodium sulfate, which he called sal mirabilis or "wonderful salt", brought him fame and the honor of being named "Glauber's salt". It was an effective but relatively safe laxative at a time when purging (emptying the digestive tract) was a popular treatment for many diseases.
Sodium sulfate is a typical electrostatically bonded ionic sulfate. The existence of free sulfate ions in solution is indicated by the easy formation of insoluble sulfates when these solutions are treated with Ba 2+ or Pb 2+ salts: Na 2 SO 4 + BaCl 2 → 2 NaCl + BaSO 4. Sodium sulfate is unreactive toward most oxidizing or reducing agents.
Thénardite is an anhydrous sodium sulfate mineral, Na 2 SO 4 which occurs in arid evaporite environments, specifically lakes and playas. It also occurs in dry caves and old mine workings as an efflorescence and as a crusty sublimate deposit around fumaroles. It occurs in volcanic caves on Mount Etna, Italy.
The product was composed of Glauber's salt (sodium sulfate), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), tartaric acid, common salt (sodium chloride), sodium phosphate and traces of lithium carbonate and water. [2] It was marketed as a saline laxative and alkalinizing agent.
In the first step, sodium chloride is mixed with concentrated sulfuric acid at temperatures of 800–900 °C; hydrogen chloride gas is evolved, leaving solid sodium sulfate. In the second step, the sodium sulfate is crushed, mixed with charcoal and limestone and again heated in a furnace.
This convention should also be applied to all compounds and derivative names of these chemicals: sulfate not sulphate; sulfuric not sulphuric; etc. The English name of element 74 is tungsten and not wolfram: the latter was once adopted by IUPAC (in 1949), but is no longer recommended by them (even as an alternative) per the 2011 Principles. (Of ...
Sodium permanganate – NaMnO 4; Sodium peroxide – Na 2 O 2; Sodium peroxycarbonate – Na 2 CO 4; Sodium perrhenate – NaReO 4; Sodium persulfate – Na 2 S 2 O 8; Sodium phosphate; see trisodium phosphate – Na 3 PO 4; Sodium selenate – Na 2 O 4 Se; Sodium selenide – Na 2 Se; Sodium selenite – Na 2 SeO 3; Sodium silicate – Na 2 ...
Glauberite is a monoclinic sodium calcium sulfate mineral with the formula Na 2 Ca(S O 4) 2. It was first described in 1808 for material from the El Castellar Mine, Villarrubia de Santiago, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It was named for the extracted Glauber's salts after the German alchemist Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1668). [2]