A method for the determination of trace cations in the tetramethylammonium chloride was developed by ion chromatography(IC) with conductivity detector.
It alsoshowed that more than one week was needed to activate Nitrosomonas by dailyaddition of 1.5 g NH4Cl and another 50 ml nitrifying bacteria to this system.
Tiring of field and flock, in 1768 he moved to Edinburgh, where he founded a successful business producing sal ammoniac from coal soot, and busied himself with various scientific pursuits.