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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
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4 Arr. XXVIII. —On the molecular structure of Uric Acid and 
P. Ate derivatives 
- fessor in acvaed CaS an! 
, and on the other alcohols or the Perot or neemous 
ons. I shall adopt with some slight modifications the nota- 
principal determinant, 
To the molecule of free oo acid I give the formula 
=€ —Ho 
ich all the bonds are seas By metastasis * this 
May become in combin 
pate or re —Ho, 
% 
combination I give the bony, N€Ho, the name of 
voy "Tf we serine the esyigs by hydrogen we have 
N= 
—H 
hich j in the isolated state represents a molecule of cyanhydric 
~? "2d which by metastasis give: 
N=€—H, and X-d-m 
= 
Neen t intro tis term to pone a oa or transposition of the 
i reread et Series, Von, XLVI, No. 138.—Noy., 1868. 
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