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Idrialin
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a mineral wax accompanying the mercury ore in Idria. According to Goldschmidt it can be extracted by means of xylol, amyl alcohol or turpentine; also without decomposition, by distillation in a current of hydrogen, or carbon dioxide. It is a white crystalline body, very difficultly fusible, boiling above 440° C. (824° F.), of the composition C40H280. Its solution in glacial acetic 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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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Idrialin'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/i/idrialin.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Idrialin'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/i/idrialin.html. 1910.
