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aha ( ae i t ait & ye 
RUTACER. 
lcutta mathe lime juice prepared by native innhickanto kere : 
preserved with « a small amount of salicylic acid, is s labgely 
fluid ounce is not passed for Government purposes, and the 
ount of salicylic acid has been fixed at one-fifth of a grain — 
The same juice concentrated without heat in vacuo 
er H? SO}, indicated a loss of only 9°2 grains due to volatil 
acids. In the experiments in which heat was employed th 
al loss of acidity, though really partly due to volatile acid , 
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it, and 5-28 per cent. in orange peel when the white inner 
ue had been removed. According to Boussingault, oran 
per solution. Several species of the genus yield an inferior 
m resembling cherry-tree. gum. By various treatment of 
alcoholic extract of the peel, M. Tanret has succes 
(a) A crystalline acid, insipid and non-volatile, jnsGlable 
3 
nh water and ether, slightly soluble in cold alcohol, me mor. 
eating to that of saalicaae acid ; 
A ar gatalling anit, isomeric with be 
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