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American Chemical Journal, vol. i., Nos. 2 and 3, present a good array of contributions from different American universities, making in all, with reviews and reports, about 215 pages. Under inorganic chemistry is to be found a description of very slightly modified methods of nitrogen and phosphorus estimation adapted to agricultural products, by Johnson and Jenkins; and a series of analyses of gummite and other uranium minerals from North Carolina, by E. Genth, &c. Among the contributions to organic chemistry is a long paper by Remsden and lies on the oxidation of substitution products of aromatic hydrocarbons, continued from No. I. In the first portion the authors describe solid orthokresol from their oxytoluic acid, and they further conclude from their experiments that the presence of a suiphamine group acts protectively towards a methyl group in a substituted aromatic compound submitted to oxidation. A full abstract of this and another interesting paper by Remsden and Morse on oxidation of bromparaethyltoluene, and researches on substituted benzyl compounds, by Jackson, cannot be given in our space. Thorpe on heptane has appeared elsewhere. The remaining communications are of minor interest.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 20, 331–332 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020331a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020331a0