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tion, the latter having a characteristic camphor-like odor, easily 
volatile in a current of steam, crystallizing from weak alcohol 
at 75°-76° and ing the formula 
xi, 412, March, 1878 
3. Tr 
wh | . : : 
a C=O. On boiling the bromide with water, a crys- 
4 . 
tallized acid was obtained, which was bromacetic acid. Tribro- 
minated ethylene also absorbs oxygen under similar conditions, 
and yields dibromacetyl bromide.—Bull. Soe. Ch., Il, xxix, 204, 
arch, 1878, : G. F. Be 
4. Ona Remarkable Reaction of Boric acid and Borax with 
poses car j 
above named polyatomic alcohols in solution, be mixed with 
solution of boric ‘acid, so dilute that it no longer reddens litmus, 
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