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must be considered as representing four volumes of vapour, 
and its formula written c,H,0,- It has been found to give 
a series generally analogous to that of ordinary alcohol, and 
Professor Kane proposes for it the name Mesitic Alcohol. 
By means of sulphuric acid there is obtained a fluid 
colourless, of an alliaceous odour, boiling at 276. F. and having 
the composition c,u,, to which is given the name Mesity- 
lene. 
By acting on mesitic alcohol with perchloride of phos- 
phorus there is generated phospho-mesitylic acid, and a 
compound fluid heavier than water, which has the formula 
c, H, cl; and, by the decomposition of the latter by means of 
potash, a body c,u,0. These may be considered either as 
containing Mesitylene, or a hypothetic radical Mesityl, 
thus: 
C,H, +0. Oxide of Mesityl. | c,u,-+-n0. Hydrate of Mesity- 
lene. 
c,H,-+ cl. Chloride of Mesi- | c,u,-+- Hcl. Muriate of Mesi- 
tyl. tylene. 
By the action of phosphorus and iodine on mesitic alcohol, 
there is produced an iodide of mesityl, having the formula 
C, H, I. 
Oxide of Mesityl unites with sulphuric acid in two pro- 
portions, forming the sulphate and the bisulphate of mesityl ; 
both of these are acid, and unite with bases forming well 
characterized salts. 
The salts of the former are called su/phomesitylates, and 
of the latter persulphomesitylates; and a very anomalous 
character in these salts is, that the quantity of the inorganic 
base is such as could neutralize the whole of the sulphuric 
acid which they contain. Thus the sulpho-mesitylate of 
lime has the formula 
SO, -+C, H,0 +Ca 0-+ HO; 
