} 
52 C.G. Wheeler on the action of hypochlorous acid 
These figures lead to no simple or at all probable formula; 
the body was possibly a mixture of mono- and trichlorinated 
oil of turpentine. A mixture of equal equivalents would de- 
mand 53°99 p.c. carbon, 6°08 hydrogen and 39-93 chlorine. 
appears to take place where oil of turpentine is employed. 
btamed with turpentine a finely crystallized body whieh is 
hypochlorous acid on camphor, a substance partaking on the 
one hand much of the nature of an aldehyd, and on the other, 
that of an alcohol. Its behavior on being treated with a solu- 
tion of potassa in alcohol, splitting up into an alcohol (borneol) 
and an acid, resembles that ofan aldehyd.+ It does on how- 
ever, unite with bisulphites of the alkalies and it admits of 
Ving a molecule of hydrogen substituted for one of potassium 
* Annalen der Chem. und Pharm., 1867. 
t Berthelot, Annalen Chem. und Pharm., ci, 94. 
