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acid and potassic 
chromate. After the action ceased, the fluid was distilled and the 
distillate neutralized with sodic carbonate. An oily layer floated 
with that obtained above by the oxydation of the iso-octylic alco- 
hol, A i 
have the following arrangement, “ it follows that this grouping 
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from the alcohol the hydrocarbon €,H 1g, by converting it into 
the iodid, and reducing this with zinc turnings. From its boiling- 
point which was 124°C., he shows that its constitution must be 
€H(CH;). Hence, the iso-octyl alcohol from castor oil has the 
oH €H,€H ita Gees 
formula os gy 3 
—Ann. Ch. Pharm., cxlvii, 222, Aug. 1868. G. F. B, 
