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behave towards chlorine like the sulphides of chloriniferous radicles, 
C 1 S C 1 s • 
% Cl ) ^2 °10 Cl ] > 
while towards metallic oxides, hydrated oxides, cyanides, and sulpho- 
cyanides, they behave like chlorides of sulphuriferous radicles, 
C ";} C1 c .. H fS:i c '- 
The bisulphide of amylen, 
^io Hio S 2 » 
was produced by the withdrawal of the chlorine from C 10 H 10 S 2 Cl 
by means of metallic zinc— -a reaction analogous to the reduction of 
kakodyl from its chloride. 
The bichloride of amylen, 
C 10 H l# Cl 2 , 
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, 
C 10 H 10 2N0 4; . 
which is formed in small quantity when nitric acid and amylen react 
on one another, was formed in abundance when N0 4 was led into 
amylen. This reaction shows how completely N0 4 obeys the laws 
of the halogens, and leads to its being called nitroxine. The same 
property is again illustrated by the conversion of the latter body 
into bicyanide of amylen, 
Cio Hio Cy 2 + 5Aq, 
by the action of cyanide of potassium in alcoholic solution, the 
nitrite of potash or nitroxide of potassium KN0 4 being formed at 
the same time. The five equivalents of water are feebly combined. 
An experiment to procure the pimelate of potash from the bicyanide 
of amylen by the action of caustic potash was without result. 
By the action of nitric acid upon the bisulphochloride of amylen 
the nitroxisulphide of nitroxamylen is formed, 
rj -®9 sn'O 
U 10 NO 
4 
together with a conjugate sulphur acid. 
Finally, when zinc-ethyl and bisulphochloride of amylen are 
brought together in ethereal solution, the chlorine of the latter body 
is replaced by ethyl, and a body formed having the constitution and 
properties of the bisulphide of cenanthyl— - 
