CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920 — Page 28

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impossible and was the refore not attempted. The mixture of platinum salts treated with potassium hydrate evolved a powerful odour of pyridine, which united with vapour of hydrochloric acid to form while fumes. The ammonium acetole in the retort was estimated in the usual

way

after alkalisation by distilling into 50cc of N sulphuric acid solution.

Experiment had shown that 10 ce of morphine solution (the hydrochloride dissolved in water so as to have 0.001 gram of morphine in ICC), 80 cc of water, and 10cc of 25 per cent oodum hydrate a que sus solution, could be subjected to steam distillation without the loss of any morphine, alkaloid being indicated. by codic acid and ammonia in the distillate, and that in the retort by the same test being found tobe undiminished in amount. Therefore in the opuum smoke experiment the morphine was separated.

which from the original retort contents from

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no

has been shown the pyridine bases and ammonia had been removed) by shaking with amyl alcohol, passing into acid water, and estimating with iodic acid and ammonie. This method (George - Analyst 1906 p 265) of determining small quantities of morphine a complex mixture has been found to be as

When the solution under examination trustworthy contains other substances such as soduim chloride,

do

any,

sulphate, hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, it is essential in quantitative experments for the control solution to have the same

quantity of these substances

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