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Kink Acid.~Ca.rbon 34-4320 



Hydrogen 5*5602 



Oxygen 60-00/8 



100-0000 

 Amyrin. — The sub-resin of Elemi. 



Carbon 79-11 



Hydrogen 7'44 



Oxygen 13-55 



100-00 

 Amygdalin. — A peculiar substance, discovered by MM. Robiquet and 

 Boutron, in bitter almonds. 



Carbon 0585616 



Hydrogen 0-070856 



Azote 0-036288 



Oxygen 0-307240 



01 000000 



Aspuragin. — Carbon 0*378 1 75 



Hydrogen, 0-056662 



Azote 0-221305 



Oxygen 0-343858 



0-1000000 



Aspartic Acid. — Carbon 0*3772 



Hydrogen 0*0537 



Azote 0-1204 



Oxygen 0*4187 



1 -0000 Ibid. 



ARSENIC IN SEA SALT. 



The presence of arsenic in sea salt has already been observed in that 

 found in commerce ; and MM. Latour de Trie and Lefrangois, students 

 in pharmacy, have lately detected it in a salt used in the Canton of 

 Sezanne, in the Department de la Marne. It appears to have occa- 

 sioned serious accidents ; and was submitted to examination, which 

 showed that the salt contained a quarter of a grain of deutoxide of 

 arsenic in an ounce. The authors purchased salt in various parts of 

 Paris, but did not detect arsenic in any one sample. — Ibid. 



PHOSPHURET OF SULPHUR. 

 When the protochloride of phosphorus is exposed to the action of 

 sulphuretted hydrogen, heat is evolved, and there is formed a solid 

 yellow substance, without any apparent crystalline form, and adhering 

 strongly to the glass. This is a phosphuret of sulphur. At common 

 temperatures it decomposes water, and at length disappears in it, 

 forming sulphuretted hydrogen and phosphoric acid. Its atomic con- 

 stitution is probably 



2 atoms phosphorus + 3 atoms sulphur. 



3 D 2 Our 



