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To Prepare Aldehyde

Aldebegins to boil at 374°, and at 3920 has lostonly hyde is made by filling a tubulated glass re- 60 per cent. Evidently with these properties tort, altogether to one-third full, with 32 parts, it contains less aniline than the preceding one. absolute alcohol, 30 parts bichromate of po- The changes which these bases undergo when tassa, and, without previous cooling, a mixture converted into dyes or compounds of rosani- of 35 parts oil of vitriol, and 30 of water, in small line, are brought about by the partial destruc- portions, through a safety-tube in the tubus. tion of a portion of them.

After one-half of the latter has been intro-

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