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DENSITIES OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUIDS. 
error have been overlooked, I shall be obliged to any corres- 
pondent who will point it out. 
Table of the Densities cf Alcoholic Liquids employed in Pharmacy, showing 
the corresponding degrees of the principal Areometrical Scules. 
Specific 
G. Lussac's 
Sykes's Hy- 
Baunie's 
Carrier's 
Gravity 
A Icoli OI1H- 
Areometer 
A rtometer 
_ i , 
at, 60° Fahr. 
ter,at59°F 
at 60° Fahr. 
at 59° F. 
at 59° F. 
Alcohol Absolutum 
Over proof. 
- 
Gay Lussac's - - - - 
794.1 
100 
47.2 
44,19 
Ed. Ph. ----- 
796 
99.6 
47 
44 
Paris Codex - - - - 
796.4 
99.5 
46.7 
43.7 
799 
99 
46.2 
43.2 
800 
98.8 
46 
43 
Dub. Ph. I 
Alcool a 40-42° P. C. 3 
808 
97 
70.7 ? 
44 
41.3 
oIU 
yo. D 
by. 7 
A"X 7 
4:0. / 
41 
L. Ph. and Ed. 1817 - 
815 
95.3 
67.2 
42.7 
40 
Amst. Ph. 
820 
94 
65 
41.6 
39 
Spiritus Rectificatis- 
SIMUS 
822 
93.4 
64 
41 
38.5 
824 
93 
63 
40.7 
38* 
Austr. and Swed. Ph. - 
830 
91.2 
60 
39.5 
37 
Spiritus Rectificatus 
834 
90 
57.8 
38.6 
36.2 
L. 1824, Ed. 1817, "> 
Amer. Ph. - - -3 
835 
89.7 
57.3 
38.5 
36.1 
New L. and Ed. Ph. y 
Alcool repurgatus, v 
838 
88.8 
55.8 
37.7 
35.6 
Paris C. 
Dub. Ph. 
840 
88.2 
54.8 
37.4 
35.1 
Alcool a 86 cent. P. C. 
847 
86 
50.8 
36 
33.8 
Austr. Ph. - - - - 
§50 
85 
49 
35.4 
33.3 
Spiritus Communis 
Alcool du Commerce, P. 
863 
80.5 
41 
33 
31 
867 
79 
38 
32 
30.3 
900 
66 
15.6 
26 
24.6 
Spiritus Tenuior 
L. and Ed. Ph. - - - 
Dub. Ph. 
920 1 
919.4 3 
57 

Underproof 
22.5 
21.4 
Alcool faible, P. C. - - 
923 
55.7 
2.5 
22 
21.2 
927 
53.8 
6 
21.3 
20.4 
L. 1824, and Dub. 1807 
930 
52.3 
8.3 
21 
20 
Ed. 1817 
935 
50 
13 
20 
19.2 
940 
47 
18 
19 
18 
952 
40 
30 
17.2 
16.6 
1000 

100 
10 
10 
The numbers on Gay Lussac's scale denote the per centage, by mea- 
sure, of absolute alcohol ; those of Sykes's hydrometer the excess or defi- 
ciency, per cent., of proof spirit in the sample. The Batavian scale is 10 
less than Baume's throughout, water being instead of 10. 
