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Litera Scripta Manet— The Alizarin Débâcle
Author(s) -
CLIFFE W. H.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
journal of the society of dyers and colourists
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1478-4408
pISSN - 0037-9859
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-4408.1957.tb02205.x
Subject(s) - alizarin red , alizarin , analytical chemistry (journal) , business , political science , chemistry , environmental chemistry , nuclear chemistry , biology , staining , genetics
After Brooke, Simpson & Spiller purchased the business of Perkin & Sons they failed to realise their expectations in the alizarin field and eventually gave up the attempt. How they unavailingly tried to impose responsibility for their failure on W. H. Perkin and T. D. Perkin, even to the extent of recourse to law, is now recorded for the first time.