112 DE. E. EEAKEXAUD’S EESEAECKES OK 0E&A2>-0-METALlIC BODIES. 
titf was employed. On rectification the product began to boil at 38 , ^ 
methyl distilling ovei^; the *e— ter aid consisted 
of an intermediate compound containing both ethyl and methi . 
VI. Zincmethyl. 
The experiments detaU^d tlT pfeP-tion rf ^boT^ 
described in my ptevious papers “ ^ 3° satisfactorily in the copper 
strong ethereal solution of zincmethyl corresnonding ethyl corn- 
digester* used for the production o ‘ ; solution of iodide of methyl is 
pound; in fact, the decomposition by zinc fan of 
much more quickly and perfectly effected than " ^ ™ i^gide of 
ethyl. Heated to 100» in the decomposed in six 
methyl mixed ^ ^o quantity only of gas escaped,— the whok 
hours. On opening tne diges , ti, i On hpatino- the apparatus in 
of the iodide having been transformed into 7 thm-mometer 
an oil-bath, the distillation began at 90 , and was comp 
reachedUO^C. Compared with an Toil at 35”; the 
materials, a very large point and 51» nearly the whole of 
thermometer gradually rose t ’ , , • v p-^pr The product obtained 
the remaining and larger portion of the J .memethyl, was 
between the two latter temperatures possessed th properties of 
spontaneously inflammable to the last egiee, an , i^ore carbon 
zincmethyl; on analysis, however, it was foun tiro 
1 T, j rvw +naTi Tpnuired by the formula Cg JI 3 -^n, wniisi uie xa 
and hydrogen than IS requi y combustion agreeing closely 
distillate, boiling between 51 and 5 / , yiemea le 
with the formula p ^ 
Ce 
ZUa 
o 
Calculated. 
A 
Pound. 
48 
36-35 
36-37 
11 
8-33 
7-99 
65-04 
49-26 
8 
6-06 
132-04 
100-00 
* Philosophical Transactions for 1855 , p. 260 . 
