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while free hydrogen and a carburet of hydrogen are evolved. 
Chloracetate of ammonia by the same process gives an analogous 
body which is C, Cl, N. It is liquid, boils at 178°, and has a specific 
gravity of 1-444; by the action of a solution of potash, it regenerates 
chloracetic acid with the evolution of ammonia 
the anhydrous phosphoric acid; as these differ from the new com- 
pounds only by the elements of two equivalents of water, it was sup- 
posed that they would readily yield them by this process, and accord- 
land and Kolbe prove the cyanid of ethyle of Liebig (hydrocyanate of 
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y the anhydrid amide of metacetonic 
acid. ‘These bodies are represented by the general formula C, H,-, N3 
they may be conveniently designated in conformity with the name of 
equivalent of alcohol with o hydrocyanic acid, mi two 
water, equal the nitrile of the acid belonging to the group next higher 
* See this Journal for January, 1848, p. 118. 
