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dium oxide ; hence he infers that gadolinite contains 0°02 per cent 
of this earth. In studying the yttric earths of rgb terse or 
keilhanite from Arendal, he found seandia ot plonron ere also, 
Three kilograms of this mineral gave him 1-2 grams of scandium — 
oxide, corresponding to 0°04 per cent. He is now engaged on 
larger quantities of the keilhauite and hopes to obtain enough 
material to enable him to determine the more important charac- 
ters of the new element, which he thinks does not ey. to the 
yttrium group.— Bull. Soc, Ch., Il, xxxi, 486, June, 18 
5. On the Action of Bleaching Powder on Ethyl Alcohol —_ 
mr and GotpBEre have studied the action which goes on in 
the commercial process for the preparation of chloroform by dis- 
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greenish yellow oil, which under the iadaence of light and hea’ 
decomposes almost explosively, evolving vapors of hydrochloric 
and hypochlorous acids. They have not succeeded in isolating 
this oil, but the believe it to be eth l hy ee formed by 
he reaction : aCl, +Ca (OCl),+(C, it OH), = +Ca(OH), 
4(C.H ,(OCl)),. The residue of the distillate an aa epee 
consists anew 4 of alcohol and aldehyde, removable by water, 
and abou fa non-miscible oil, heavier than water. sei C.C. 
largest fraction yielded a cobethibt product polling at 154°-155°, 
which was monochloracetal. The highest fraction _ dichlora- 
cetal. The fraction from 80° to 150° gave a product constant at 
77°-78° which gave the formula C,H,OCI, probably ” chlormethyl 
ethyl ether re i oJ. prak. Ch., Il, xix, 393, May, 1879. 
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6. On ane from Pinus Sabiniana,—Tuorre has submitted 
to iesngnation a hydrocarbon obtained by eae the exuda- 
tion of a Coniferous tree, Pinus sabiniana Dougl., or nut pine, 
tol he Sierras of California. This hydrocarbon was 
sribed: | in 1871 by pedi of San Francisco under the name 
Thro h D 
Dr. Squibb of — Thorpe obtained two gallons of this 
hysical properties fully con 
firmed the statements ‘of the latter. ‘It was colorless, had a 
sistent odor of oil of oranges, boiled slightly below 100° and 
a resin, which had the above odor very strongly. ote agitating 
the oil with ake vo anor = the acid became brown and the 
hydrocarbon lost boiling point, sunrected; was 
