A large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulfuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrousfumes. These fumes, as a catalyst, effect the conversion of sulfurous to sulfuric acid.
Origin
Invented in 1859 by John Glover.
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