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Chemistry. A PERUSAL of the Sitzungsberichteof the Vienna Academy, of Sciences indicates that a great deal of valuable chemical research work is being carried out by Austrian investigators. In the concluding section of vol. ex., J. Klimont gives an account of experiments on the composition of oleum cacao which indicate that this substance can no longer be regarded as a mixture of tristearin, tripalmitin and triolein, but that it is essentially a mixed glyceride containing the radicles of these three acids united to one and the same glycerin radicle. Other mixed glycerides containing oleic acid and fatty acids of smaller molecular weight are also present in the fat.
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Recent Science in Austria . Nature 67, 425–426 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067425a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/067425a0