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Benzoic Ether
A.colorless oily 4302. Acetate of Amyl. Mix together liquid, slightly heavier than water, aromatic in taste and odor. It boils at 410° Fahr. It is prepared as follows: Take 4 parts 90 per cent. alcohol, 2 parts crystallized benzoic acid, the distillate by washing it with a dilute solu- 1 part fusel oil and 2 parts dry acetate of potassa (potassium-Fownes); add 1 part concentrated sulphuric acid, and distill. Purify and 1 part concentrated muriatic acid; distill tion of potassa, and again distill it from dry them together, and, as soon as the product chloride of calcium. (Cooley.) Acetate of turns milky when mixed with water, change amyl, diluted with alcohol, forms the essence the receiver and collect the subsequent distil- of Jargonelle or Bergamot pear. late; add water to it, decant the ether from