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1821.] combustion which is in combination, the terms of hydrocarburet of chlorine and hydrocarburet of iodine may be considered as appropriate for them.

As yet, I have not succeeded in procuring an iodide of carbon, but I intend to pursue these experiments in a brighter season of the year, and expect to obtain this compound.

On a new Compound of Chlorine and Carbon.

By and

[Read July 12, 1821.]

, of Abo in Finland, is proprietor of a manufactory, in which nitric acid is prepared by distilling calcined sulphate of iron with crude nitre in iron retorts, and collecting the products in receivers connected by glass tubes, in the manner of Woulfe's apparatus. In this process he observed, that when a peculiar kind of calcined vitriol, obtained from the waters of the mine of Fahlun, and containing a small portion of pyrites, known in Sweden by the name of calcined aquafortis vitriol No. 3, was used, the first tube was lined with sulphur, and the second with fine white feathery crystals. These were in very small quantity, amounting only to a few grains from each distillation; but M. Julin, by degrees, collected a portion of it, and, having brought it to this country, inserted a short account of its properties in the 'Annals of Philosophy' vol. i. p. 216, to which a few observations were added by ourselves.

The following are the properties of this substance, as described by M. Julin. It is white; consists of small soft adhesive fibres; sinks slowly in water; is insoluble in it whether hot or cold; is tasteless; has a peculiar smell, somewhat resembling spermaceti; is not acted on by sulphuric, muriatic, or nitric acid, except that the latter by boiling on it gives traces of sulphuric acid; boiled with caustic potash, has a small portion of sulphur dissolved from it; dissolves in hot oil of turpentine, but most of it crystallizes in needles from the solution on cooling; dissolves in boiling alcohol of .816, but by far the greater part crystallizes on cooling; burns in the flame of a lamp with a greenish-blue flame, giving a slight smell of chlorine