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as thus prepared is a colorless liquid which has a penetrating odor re- 
minding of sulphurous acid and chlorid of sulphur. Its density at 0° is 
1-675, and its boiling point 78° at 746mm. Water resolves it into 
chlorhydric and sulphurous acids, SOC], +-H,O0—2HCl 
Liquid hypochlorous acid explodes on contact with sulphur, and itis 
for this reason that the action must be moderated by suspending the 7" 
of 
hur in chlorid of sulphur and keeping this at a temperature of —12 
unites directly with certain hydrocarbons.— Comptes Rendus, \xii, 460. 
Ww. & 
3. On a new series of hydroearbons.—Scuortemmer has discovered 
among the products of the distillation of cannel coal, besides the homo- 
logues of marsh gas and benzol, other hydrocarbons attacked by concen- 
trated sulphuric acid. When the oil, after treatment with the acid, is 
distilled, the oils of the benzol and marsh gas series pass over first and 
ere remains a black tarry mass. If this mass be distilled, a thie 
400°. 
acid give organic bases. ith sulphuric acid and bichromate of potas 
the oils yield carbonic, formic, acetic, and perhaps other acids. The 
author considers it certain that the oils of this series are polymers of the 
acetylene series.— Annalen der Chemie und Pharm., exxxix, 244. W. & 
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