( 106 ) 



by weight and lla^•e been determined by means of the specific 

 gravitv bottle. 



[It is to be noticed that Fig. Ill is not reproduced on the same 

 scale as Fig. I ; since the methyl alcohol eunes would intersect and 

 the figure would therefore become confused, the scale of the abscissae 

 has been taken four times larger]. 



Sodium in Ethyl A 1 c o h o 1 -j- W a t e r. 



From these figures we obtain the important result that methyl- 

 alcohol differs from ethylalcohol in its behaviour. This is seen at 

 once from the graphical representation in Fig. IV (showing the 

 changes of the fi's, namely of the fi,-=i, iM='i etc. with the amount 

 of water). At the gas concentration (y ^ 22) a minimum occurs 



