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salts. These secondary compounds resist the first action and they 
would resist indefinitely if they were not dissociable by the heat. 
Their slow dissociation, however, is determined by the destruction 
of the simple salts which maintained the equilibrium, the same 
simple salts normally yielded by the reaction being repreduced. 
—Bull. Soc. Ch., I, xxxix, 58, Jan., 1883. G. FB 
2. On the Action of Nascent Hydroyen in increasing the Activ- 
ity of Oxygen.—Some time ago Hoppr-Sryier published some 
experiments showing that hydrogen in the nascent state, in pres- 
ence of oxygen, induced energetic oxidation. raube having 
called in question both the experiments and their explanation, 
n 
y reduction. In the same way, benzene agitated with ignite 
palladium and air gives no result, while phenol is formed if the 
palladium contains hydrogen; and in greater quantity the more 
. . t = 
highly is it charged with the gas. So petroleum ether, whet 
agitated with sodium hydrate and _ air, gives scarcely traces of 
oxidized products, even aft long time ; presence t 
acid, observed by 
t upon this acid. And as he shows that the former action is 
