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To Purify Turpentine

How-benzole with water, and keep it in stoppered ever carefully the oil of turpentine may have bottles. This substance is used as a factitious been distilled, it always leaves, after evapora- oil of bitter almonds, being, although poisonbitter almonds, being, although poisontion, a disagreeable odor, firmly adhering to ous, far less so than the prussic acid of which the goods that have been treated with it. the real article consists. (Hager.) The same is the case with benzine and the

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