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equivalents of these bodies are high, and as they contain more 
m one equivalent of nitrogen, they may perhaps be referred 
to the type of two or four equivalents of oxyd of ammonium 
or its hydrate. Another view which may be taken is that they 
contain, as substitutes for hydrogen, amids of the type N it : 
each such amid replacing a single equivalent of hydrogen. In 
this manner they may possibly be reduced to the type of one 
equivalent of oxyd of ammonium. Thus a body containing 
four equivalents of nitrogen may be represented by the formula 
‘ 
NY2 
N 4 Nz ¢ OHO. 
v 
small quantities of sulphur ‘and phosphorus which they always 
l fue 
bumen of white of eggs are nearly represented by the empir- 
cal formula* ‘ 
Cx2H2:N 1010, 
Theory. 
* Scheerer found Carbon, 543 §4°5 
Hydrogen, se ab 
Nitrogen, 1 it 7 ae 
