Berthollet

About this time Berthollet discovered the salt and sulphuric acid process, and published it so it became public knowledge.

Although Proust proved his theory by accurate measurements, his theory was not immediately accepted partially due to Berthollet's authority.

Another strong chlorine oxidant and bleach which he investigated and was the first to produce, potassium chlorate (KClO 3 ), is known as Berthollet's Salt.

Berthollet's great new developments in works regarding chemistry made him, in a short period of time, an active participant of the Academy of Science in 1780.

But it was found later that Berthollet was not completely wrong because there exists a class of compounds that do not obey the law of definite proportions.

II, that Berthollet held the opinion that in all chemical unions, there exist insensible gradations in the proportions of the constituent principles.

On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent.

While Proust believed that chemical compounds are composed of a fixed ratio of their constituent elements irrespective of the methods of production, Berthollet believed that this ratio can change according to the ratio of the reactants initially taken.