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ably a valerylene. The next 
and 65°. Distilled from sodium, the larger part of it boiled at 
63° to 63°5°, gave on analysis C 73°50, H 8°78, and had a vapor 
density 81°4*to 81-7. The formula C,H,O requires 73°17 C and 
reagents only polymerize it giving resinous and tarry products. 
ermanganate oxidizes its methyl group to acetic acid.— Ber. 
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5." On the Continuous Preparation of Ethyl Acetate.—Papst 
has devised a continuous process for the reparation of acetic 
ether, analogous to that by which ethyl ether is made. A mi 
el tube 
closed with a cock, equal molecules of alcohol and of glacial acetic 
acid—one liter of alcohol of 96 p. c., and one liter of acetic acid 
8 p. c.—are allowed to run into it slowly as soon as the tem- 
perature has reached 140°. At first a little ethyl ether distills 
