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on exposure to air for months and months. When _ to 100° C., 
14 per cent. of water are evaporated, and a yellowish qui 
resin is - _— h as before keeps sticky in open bottles for any 
length of ti 
Tt Sawin entirely in rectified spirit and in the immiscible 
liquids (chloroform, ether, ace etic ether, benszol, and petroleum 
spirit). It dissolves also in the essential oils (oil "of eucalypt) and 
in hot Iucea oil, and melts nicely together with paraffin, wax, and t the 
ats. 
The so ae in aleohol is not stained by ferric salt, but gets 
yellow on addition H, 
Ajlanthus resin is not affected by strong KOH solution, whereas 
strong H,SO, makes it swell and changes its colour to a light-pink, 
especially to be noticed on an opal plate. 
ot water melts the resin as Bers and takes traces of the essential 
of sugar of lead, a sone carer which by sect 
yields a sticky resin, led. by in. 
precipitated —— the ae ceilutiod = lead acetate is not so sticky 
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The essential oil of Ailanthus imberbiflora ot agree in its 
29 nT ie 53 of the 
@ resin dissolved in lucca oil and given to a big dog ae 
duced schon purging. Very likely it acts as an anthelmintic tf, 
ile I worked with the hot resin, sublimating The oil 
with fats, &c., I felt a nauseous sensation coml vi Ps ‘on 
re) dulosa is said to have a very | decided effect of 1 Tho bares 
the A. imberbiflora resin makes a good oint 
and_ sores 
too quickly drying alcoholic varnishes, e tin, an 
metal sey sores — a brittle varnish be to fall off waste 1 is 
in the sun. With wax and ol cahene it makes @ 
paper labels sepuanaaites on tin boxes 
dia exudes from its trank a dark-green 0. oleo resi 
ieee rhe inophyllum, Linn., Fl. Austr. i, 188. The “jedi 
ment for chro 
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Technically, the resin might be adhibited for softening t00 d smooth 
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