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A COMPREHENSIVE study of the properties of these primary hydrocarbons in the liquefied condition has been made by Dr. Hainlen in the laboratory of Prof. Lothar Meyer at Tübingen, and an account of his work will be found in the current issue of Liebig's Annalen. Owing to the greater ease with which it undergoes liquefaction, propane was first investigated. The hydrocarbon was obtained in a state of purity by means of the admirable method of preparation discovered in the same laboratory in the year 1883 by Köhnlein, which consists in heating propyl iodide with aluminium chloride in a sealed tube to 130°. After subjection to this temperature for twenty hours the tube was allowed to cool, and subsequently placed in a freezing mixture; while immersed in the latter it was found practicable to open it without danger or loss, the accumulated gas being readily transferred to a gas-holder over water
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TUTTON, A. The Properties of Liquid Ethane and Propane. Nature 51, 65–66 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051065a0
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