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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
I. CHEMISTRY AND Puysics. 
action of dilute sulphuric acid upon a mixtur arts potas- 
Slum chlorate and 48 s sodium chloride. The acid was con- 
tained in a flask with a lateral tubulure, connected with a similar 
weight of the known volume of the mixture. The 
cludes: 1st, that the composition of hypochloric oxide, calculated 
Proportions of the constituents varying with the mode of prepara- 
tion; and 4th, that Millon’s statement of the existence of a com- 
pound Cl,O,, rests on mistaken conclusions.—Liebig’s Annalen, 
elxxvii, 1, May, 1875, FB. 
n the presence of Sulphuric oxide in the Gaseous products 
of combustion of Pyrite.—Scuurer Kestner finds that the abun- 
t oh 
SO, does not therefore come from dissociation of SO,. In 
Second experiment, the sulphurous oxide was mixed with twice 
its volume of air; but the issuing gases did not render turbid a 
