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sodium acetate, sodium potassium tartrate, sodium formate, 
sodium citrate, acetone, chloral hydrate, glucerol quinine sul- 
phate, sodium benzoate, sodium succinate, methyl alcohol, 
ethyl alcohol phenol, phenolphthalein and gum arabic. 
In the following cases of oxidation, either in presence of 
sodium sulphite or freshly precipitated ferrous hydroxide 
along with carbon dioxide, the presence of aldehyde (which is 
an intermediate product of oxidation) was detected by Schiff’s 
reagent :— 
Methy] alcohol, ethyl alcohol, amyl alcohol, glycerol glu- 
taric acid, phenol and brucine. 
In the case of oxidation of benzyl alcohol, acid test was 
obtained with litmus. 
The wide application and the general usefulness of these 
induced reactions are evident from the fact that these various 
imagines that such a change is immediate or direct—that every 
carbon atom simultaneously parts with its attached hydrogen 
atoms and by combining with oxygen yields carbon dioxide 
: : e have brought about the 
: .. and water. : 
Relation to life same change in the laboratory with potassium 
Br stearate by inducing its oxidation by the 
primary oxidation of sodium sulphite or ferrous hydroxide by 
passing oxygen through the mixture at the ordinary tempera- 
ture. 
In the animal body, acetic acid is oxidised with great 
ease to carbondioxide and water. Its oxidation in the labor- 
atory has been effected by us with the help of sodium-sulphite 
or ferrous hydroxide when it is being oxidised by passing 
oxygen through it. tabolism in the animal 
Th : ‘ tive meta ism ; 
e substance undergoing acti tes, fats and their 
istant to oxidation by 
tion of the atmospheric oxygen must take place in the body in 
