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THE following method may perhaps be of use to chemists and biologists who are concerned in the preparation of solid compounds in the anhydrous state for analysis, or in obtaining anhydrous tissues, for moisture determinations, etc. It consists in utilising Prof. S. Young's process for the purification of alcohol from all water by distilling it through his evaporator still-head, with the previous addition of a suitable quantity of benzene.
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ATKINS, W. The Preparation of Anhydrous Solids. Nature 95, 118 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095118c0
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