"Glycerol" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which occurs in very small quantities in wood spirit. It may be prepared from allyl iodide by the action of moist silver oxide by the reduction of acrolein; or by heating glycerin with oxalic acid and a little ammonium chloride to 260 deg. C. In this last reaction glycerol monoformin is produced as an intermediate product, but is decomposed as the temperature rises:— C3H5(OH)3H2C2O4 C3H5(OH)2.O.CHOCO2H2O glycerol monoformin C3H5(OH)2.O.CHO C3H5OHCO2H2O It is a colourless mobile liquid of pungent smell, boiling at 97 deg. C. Being an unsaturated ...
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