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Succinic acid
This is obtained Carbon. This is used in the arts as a solvent for Indiavent for India-rubber, gutta percha, &c. To Mulder recommends the following iron bottle (a quicksilver bottle answers very process as the most convenient.
Provide an by mixing coarsely powdered amber with an well), and make a second opening into it. To equal weight of sand, and distilling it by a one opening adapt a copper tube bent twice gradually increased heat; the product is puri- at right angles; and to the other a straight fied by pressing it between bibulous paper, to tube dipping into the bottle. Having nearly remove the oil, and then subliming it. It filled the bottle with pieces of charcoal (reforms colorless, inodorous crystalline scales, cently heated to redness), and having screwed soluble in 5 parts cold or 2½ parts boiling on the bent and straight tubes, place the water; is fusible and volatile without decomposition. (Cooley.)