Tutton's salt



Tutton's salts are a family of salts with the alums, which are also double salts but with the formula MM'(SO4)2.(H2O)12. Such salts were of historical importance because they were obtainable in high purity and served as reliable reagents and spectroscopic standards.

References

  1. ^ Greenwood, N. N.; & Earnshaw, A. (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd Edn.), Oxford:Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-3365-4.