Rochelle Salt

 

                                                                                1675

Rochelle salt is a natural salt. Its chemical name is sodium potassium tartrate tetrahydrate. Rochelle salt is also called a double salt of tartaric acid. The first production of the same was done in the year 1675.

The discoverer of the Rochelle salt was an apothecary named Pierre Seignette, born in the city of La Rochelle, France.

In 1824, Sir David Brewster demonstrated piezoelectric  effects using Rochelle salts, which led to him naming the effect pyroelectricity

In 1919, Alexander McLean Nicolson worked with Rochelle salt, developing audio-related inventions like microphones and speakers at Bell Labs

Rochelle Salt: Biuret Additive 

Biurets Reagent 

Rochelle Salt aka Potassium Sodium Tartarate 

Biuret Test

Presence Of Peptide Bonds  In Proteins 

Biurets Test

Polypeptide Chain Chelates With A Copper Ion 

Medical Diagnostics 

Proteins In CSF 

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