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on cooling. At higher temperatures it decomposes evolving 
rown-red condensible fumes and leaving a coal. en pure it 
has no odor or taste. It is insoluble in water, difficultly soluble 
in cold ether, alcohol and glacial acetic acid, somewhat more 
easily in benzene, petroleum naphtha, chloroform, and entirely in 
CS, and bromine. ilute alkalies in the cold are without 
action; on heating with NaOH it decomposes as follows: 
C.S,Br, +(NaOH),, =(Na,CO,),+ Na,8, + (NaBr),+(H,O),. 
The author gives four possible constitutional formulas for this 
crit ty 
ee 2 
cj =e" c} ~8_B d 
==N— Dr. a a 7 
body, S =s—Br °}( —S—Br? Brs ets 
c} Br oa 22 Br C ae 
ot : = ES, 
Br.=C—S—S—S—C=Br,. He gives the preference to the lat- 
ter on account of the decomposition products. The oily body 
from which it was produced gave on analysis CS,Br, or Br,=S 
=—C=S=Br,. The crystalline body is therefore a condensation 
product of thé oily one.—Ber. Berl. Chem. Ges., xv, 273, Feb- 
ruary, 1882. G. F. B. 
4, On anew Sulphur oxychloride.—OcieR has obtained a new 
oxychloride of sulphur by heating to 250° in sealed tubes a mix- 
ture of equal weights 8,Cl, and SO,Cl,. The liquid becomes dark 
red in color and on opening the tubes SO, is evolved, and a 
liquid remains which distills at 60°, and gives on analysis the 
formula S,OC1,. It is formed according to the equation (S,C1,).+ 
‘gi : 
(SO,Cl,),=(S,0Cl,).+S0,+8. It is a dark red liquid of density 
1-656 at U°, and of a repulsive odor recalling that of sulphur 
chloride. Water decomposes it, yielding sulphur, sulphurous and 
sulphuric acids, hydrogen chloride and some thionic acids. Heat 
of 100° decomposes it into sulphurous oxide, sulphur chloride 
and chlorine. Its calculated density is 3°84; observed 3°98, 3°84, 
3°75 by Victor Meyer’s method; 3:9 by the method of Dumas. 
The author supposes it to be derived from the hypothetical body 
ing from 741°29 to 766°2"™, gave as a mean for 1 + 100a, 1°37317. 
‘The mean under constant pressure was 1°37908. In the Cailletet 
apparatus the gas was easily liquefied, the pressure required at 
various temperatures being as follows: At 0°, liquid at 12°5 at-— 
