Background
The compound name is sodium sulfate. Since the 17th century is has also been known as Glauber’s salt after the Dutch/German chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber, who discovered it in 1965 in Austrian spring water. He named it sal mirabilis, which means miraculous salt, because of its medicinal properties. In the 18th century, Glauber’s salt began to be uses as a material for industrial production, soda ash .in result of that demand for soda ash increases and supply of sodium sulfate increased as well. So now in the 19th century sodium sulfate became the principal method of soda ash production.