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Figure 2.2 The first publication on the hydrothermal research.
Source: Courtesy of Prof. S. Somiya.
hydrothermal bomb was not used by earlier workers and they simply referred to
them as autoclaves or tubes. The greatest contribution in the nineteenth century was
by H. De Senarmont
[8]
, the founder of hydrothermal synthesis in geoscience. He
used glass tubes containing gel, SiO
2
and H
2
O, HCl, or CO
2
, enclosed in steel tubes,
and heated at 200
300
C. The resultant product was a six-sided quartz prism with
2
