Isobaric and isothermal dehydration studies on pure soap crystals

Within the past dozen years skilled investigators in several laboratories have achieved considerable success in detecting distinct crystalline modifications of both pure and mixed sodium soaps. Some measure of the resulting clarification of knowledge pertaining to soap crystals is general acceptance of the Thiessen and Stauff alpha sodium stearate as a hemihydrate with monoclinic crystal symmetry established by Buerger and his coworkers. Unfortunately, however, such wide agreement does not extend over proposals for at least nine other crystalline phases said to exist at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. This present investigation had been undertaken with the hope not of solving the multitudinous problems pertaining to soap structures, but more simply of demonstrating the possibilities for applying refined techniques of water vapor sorption and desorption in conjunction with x-ray diffraction measurements to these problems.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Natural Sciences

Grantor

Rice University

Year dc:date.issued

1948

Author dc:creator

• Bushey, Gordon Lake

• Organic chemistry

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• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18209

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.rice.edu:1911/18209