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 Table III. — The Free Acids Prepared from the Crystalline Barium Salts. 



Found 



Cottonseed 

 meal 



Oats 



Corn 



Com- 

 mercial 

 phytin 



Calculated for 



Inosite 

 hexaphos- 



phate 

 C6H1BO24- 



Po 



Phytic 



acid 



according 



to 

 Neuberg 

 C6XI24O2;- 

 P 6 . 



C 

 H 

 P 



Per ct. 

 10.68 

 3.09 

 27.66 



Per ct. 



10.82 



3.09 



27.12 



Per ct. 



10.86 



3.02 



27.22 



Per ct. 



10.80 



3.23 



27.31 



Per ct. 

 10.90 

 2.72 

 28.18 



Per ct. 

 10.08 

 3.36 

 26.05 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The author desires to express his appreciation and thanks to 

 Dr. P. A. Levene of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 New York, N. Y., and to Dr. Thomas B. Osborne of the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn., for many 

 suggestions which have been of great value in carrying out this work. 



