429 Scientific Intelligence. 
10. Ona new method for preparing Carbonylie Sulphid.—La- 
DENBURG has communicated to the Chemical Society of Berlin a 
new method for the preparation of carbonylic sulphid gas. From 
theoretical considerations he was led to search for a body contain- 
: . . 
Ing the group €08, thinking the atoms might be differently ar- 
After the absorption of these a small quantity of a combustible gas 
remained, which was not accurately analyzed. In the tube a black 
coaly mass is left which shows that the decomposition is one not 
. be expressed by a chemical equation Ber. d. deutsch. Chem. 
es. 
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zu Berlin, ii, 53, Feb, 1869. G. 
hydrate, This gas, prepared according to metho e 
a y passing through a U tube filled with unvulcanized 
caoutchouc and dina freezing mi f pounded ice an 
(©.H,KS0,) =€084G-11° ; s+{° l S. 
Tn aqueous solution the decomposition is as follows: a 
(€sH,KS0,),4+(H,0),—H Ls re °, +(e 0), +608. 
2 
same salt apparently, was obtained by Debus by decompo- 
sing ethylic sulphocarbonate with alcoholic secilacs thus: 
©S,0(€,H,).+HKO=€86,(€,H,)K+H(€,H,)5;__ 
d by Chancel by passing carbonic gas into an alcoholic solution 
of potassium mercaptid. Its possible rational constitution may 
Tepresented in three ways, thus: 
* This Journal, II, xly, 251, March, 1868. 
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