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To Test Creosote
A large pro- animals. A solution of 1 part sulphate of portion of ordinary creosote is simply car- zinc in about 20 parts water may also be used bolic acid; but the pure creosote, which for the same purpose. 1655. Babington's Antiseptic Soluconstitutes the peculiar smell of smoke, is quite a different substance, and may be dis- tion. 1 part of wood naphtha to 7 parts tinguished from the false by its behavior with water. Wood naphtha undiluted serves for collodion. A mixture of this latter with injection. carbolic acid gives a gelatinous precipitate,