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Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 23: New Series, From May, 1895, to May, 1896
Organic compounds, since shown to be contained in certain petroleums. With these facts in View, and having found in the study of the sulphur.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 23: New Series, From May, 1895, to May, 1896
The presence of aromatic hydrocarbons in American petroleum was first recognized by Schorlemmer in 1865. Pelouze and Cabours had previously stated that American petroleum contained no aromatic hydrocarbons, but Schorlemmer collected a distillate from Canadian petroleum below and upon treating it with nitric acid and redue ing with tin and hydrochloric acid, after distillation he Obtained an Oil with an Odor of aniline that gave, with bleaching powder, the rosani line reaction. The portion distilling between 150 and 170 gave a mixture of solid and liquid nitro-products, and the solid portion proved to be trinitrocumol. Benzol and its homologues were also found by Schorlemmer in Pennsylvania petroleum, in Galician petroleum by Freund'lAbout the Publisher
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