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Potter, Charles Vincent (1859 - 1908) |
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| Analytical chemist and Engineer | ||
| Born: 26 September 1859 Sydenham, Kent, England. Died: 27 May 1908 Balwyn, Victoria, Australia. | ||
| Charles Vincent Potter arrived in Victoria in 1885 and in the 1890s established himself as a consultant brewer, chemist and engineer. He secured Victorian patents for treating cereals for brewing, a gas engine for a motor car, a washing compound and other ideas 1887-1903. He is best remembered for his work on concentrating sulphide ores being mined at Broken Hill by a flotation process, which he discovered and patented in 1901. |
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