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chlorine, whereupon a body was formed identical with that got by 
the action of chlorine upon the bisulphochloride of chlorethylen or 
upon the bisulphide of ethyl—namely, the chlorosulphide of bichlor- 
ethylen or sulphide of terchlorethyl 
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Further, the same body C, H, S, Cl was submitted, in alcoholic 
solution, to the action of hydrate of potash, which converted it into 
C, H, S, OHO. 
Again, the body C,, H,, S, Cl (whose equivalent of chlorine has 
been shown to be replacible by O and by OHO), on treatment with 
cyanide and sulphocyanide of potassium in alcoholic solution, ex- 
changes its chlorine for cyanogen or sulphocyanogen respectively, 
giving rise to ; 
Bithiocyanide of amylen, C,, H,, 8, Cy 
and Bithiosulphocyanide of amylen, C,, H,, 8, 8, Cy 
respectively. 
From these and analogous reactions previously described, the 
conclusion is drawn that the bodies C, H, 8, Cl and C,, H,, 8, Cl 
behave towards chlorine like the sulphides of chloriniferous radicles, 
H H 
C, at} 8. Cro a} Sai 
while towards metallic oxides, hydrated oxides, cyanides, and sulpho- 
cyanides, they behave like chlorides of sulphuriferous radicles, 
H H 
Cig} ol Cry g° } Ol 
‘8, 10 §, 
The bisulphide of amylen, 
Cio Hy, 82, 
was produced by the withdrawal of the chlorine from C,, H,, 8, Cl 
by means of metallic zinc-—a reaction analogous to the reduction of 
kakodyl from its chloride. 
The bichloride of amylen, 
Cio Hy Ch, 
could not be formed by the direct union of chlorine and amylen, but 
was produced by the action of amylen upon the pentachloride of 
phosphorus. 
The binitroxide of amylen, 
Digktlay SINC ys 
which is formed in small quantity when nitric acid and amylen react 
on one another, was formed in abundance when NO, was led into 
amylen. This reaction shows how completely NO, obeys the laws 
of the halogens, and leads to its being called nitroxine. The same 
