Chemistry:Idrialin

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Idrialin is a mineral wax which can be distilled from the mineral idrialite.[1] According to G. Goldschmidt of the Chemical Society of London, it can be extracted by means of xylene, amyl alcohol or turpentine; also without decomposition, by distillation in a current of hydrogen, or carbon dioxide. It is a white crystalline body, very difficultly fusible, boiling above 440 °C (824 °F). Its solution in glacial acetic acid, by oxidation with chromic acid, yielded a red powdery solid and a fatty acid fusing at 62 °C, and exhibiting all the characters of a mixture of palmitic acid and stearic acid.[2][3]

References

  1. Thomson, Thomas (1838) (in en). Chemistry of Organic Bodies: Vegetables. Maclachlan & Stewart. pp. 748. https://books.google.com/books?id=QBdPdPaOQKMC&dq=idrialin&pg=PA749. 
  2. Chisholm 1911.
  3. Goldschmidt, G. (1879). Watts, Henry. ed (in en). Journal of the Chemical Society. The Chemical Society of London. pp. 167. https://books.google.com/books?id=QbZLAAAAYAAJ&dq=idrialin&pg=PA167.