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IDRIALIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 289 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IDRIALIN , a See also:

mineral See also:wax accompanying the See also:mercury ore in See also:Idria. According to See also:Goldschmidt it can be extracted by means of xylol, amyl See also:alcohol or See also:turpentine; also without decomposition, by See also:distillation in a current of See also:hydrogen, or See also:carbon dioxide. It is a See also:white crystalline See also:body, very difficultly fusible, boiling above 440° C. (824° F.), of the See also:composition C4oH,80. Its See also:solution in glacial acetic See also:acid, by oxidation with chromic acid, yielded a red powdery solid and a fatty acid fusing at 62° C., and exhibiting all the characters of a mixture of palmitic and stearic acids.

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