Joshua Ward
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This article is about 17th century London pharmacist and experiment chemist. For the 19th century American slaveholder and rice farmer, see Joshua John Ward.
Joshua Ward (1685–1761) was a London pharmacist and an experimental chemist.[1] In 1736, Ward heated saltpeter and as it decomposed the sulfur was oxidized to SO3, which combined with water to produce sulfuric acid. It was the first practical production of sulfuric acid on a large scale.
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- ^ Archibald Clow (1992). The Chemical Revolution. ISBN 2881245498. http://books.google.com/books?id=zXfXiDnzmvgC&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=Joshua+Ward+chemist&source=bl&ots=_lxM-wpw5B&sig=E8_cjH_ujPjQnNNs29zLyey_tOE&hl=en&ei=RFxfSu6hMImEtgeNrZTgAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4. "Whether Ward, or his partner, John White[disambiguation needed
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His full-length portrait by the sculptor Agostino Carlini (active 1725 - 53) is at the V & A Museum in London.
