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IN a previous communication1 we described the separation, identification and determination of the methyl esters of the long-chain fatty acids present in montan wax. This work was afterwards confirmed by Wollrab, Streibl and Sorm2, who also used a flame ionization detector. They, however, used a chromatographic column containing 5 per cent ‘Apiezon L’ on ground tile and preconditioned by vacuum sublimation at temperatures of up to 350° C and operated at 335° C. These authors recorded the presence in montan wax of all the straight-chain normal fatty acids in the range C22–C34 that we had previously identified, and in addition the C33 acid which we had not at that stage reported.
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EDWARDS, V., KIPPING, P. & JEFFERY, P. Composition of Montan Wax. Nature 199, 171–172 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199171a0
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