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On the Chemical Composition of Butyrellite (Dana)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. Ivison Macadam*
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, New Veterinary College, Edinburgh

Extract

In dana's System of Mineralogy, 5th Edition, 1883, page 747, the following description of this substance is given :—" Crystallisable in needles; butter-like in consistence; colour, white; melting point of impure native material, 47°, Brazier; but of material after solution in alcohol, 51°, Luck ; 52°-52°· Brazier ; easily soluble in alcohol or ether."

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1885

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