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IN previous papers it has been shown that the application of an ebulliometer with several de-phlegmators1 (Fig. 1) filled with an azeotropic mixture of benzene and ethanol or any other binary mixture forming with water a ternary azeotrope, enables one to determine with an accuracy up to 0.001 per cent the quantity of moisture in solid organic substances soluble in the above-mentioned azeotrope. The same method can be applied for determinations of the degree of decomposition of organic substances forming water as one of the products of decomposition.
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W. Swietoslawski, Chemicke listy, 26, 772; 1932. Conferencias de Introduccion de IX Congresso International de Quimica Pura Y Aplicada, Madrid, 5–11 April, 1934, p. 9.
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SWIETOSLAWSKI, W. Ebulliometric Determination of the Degree of Decomposition of an Organic Substance. Nature 135, 829 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135829a0
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