Dr. L. T. Thorne (the application of Oxygen with chlorine to the bleaching of paper pulps)

Textile Mercury, 27.4.1889

Dr. L. T. Thorne, the Chemist to the Erin's Oxygen Co., in a paper recently read before the London section of the Society of Chemical Industry described the application of Oxygen with chlorine to the bleaching of paper pulps. He incidentally mentioned that experiments had been made with the same process in the bleaching of cotton and other fibres in the form of yarns and cloth with some success; as he pointed out, oxygen is the real bleaching agent in almost all cases, but the application of pure oxygen gm in the free condition has not hitherto proved a success and it seems curious that admixture with chlorine should impart to it bleaching properties. If the process is such a success when applied to paper pulps of all kinds, it would seem to be worth while to try it on the large scale for the bleaching of cotton yarns and cloths.