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Les Mondes, Revue Hebdomadaire des Sciences.
No. 18, April 29, 1880.
Adulterated Wines.—A controversy is raging between
2 Hungarian wine merchant and the wine growers of Dalmatia,
 each party accusing the other of making a frauduent
 use of magenta.
Reproduction of Certain Mineral Bodies by the
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No. 19, May 6, 1880.
The chemical matter in this number is taken from the
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No. 20, May 13, 1880.
Researches on the Relative Intensity of the Specral
 Rays of Hydrogen and Nitrogen, with reference
io the Constitution of the Nebule.—C. Fievez.—The
spectra of the nebulae display the rays of hydrogen and
atrogen which resist extinction longest, and warrant the
-upposition that these bodies are present in the nebula.
The Use of the Term “Indigo” by Newton, and
1s Relations with the Colouration of the Spectrum.
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2rof. Von Bezold, that “ ultramarine ” should be substiuted
 for ** indigo ” as the name of a spectral colour. He
shows that indigo is in reality a greenish blue, and contains
2 considerable element of blackness.

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Bulletin de la Société Chimique de Paris,
No. 5, March 5, 1880.
Properties of Bicalcic Phosphate.—A. Millot.—This
alt prepared in the cold and dried at 100° contans
5 equivs. water, and only begins to lose its crystalline
water at 115°. It is completely dissolved in an hour in a
sufficient quantity of ammoniacal ammonium citrate. B'-:alcic
 phosphate with a single equivalent of water dissolves
more slowly in this reagent, and the solution is only comsete
 after a digestion of about twelve hours. A specimen
of bicalcic phosphate with 5 equivs. of water preserved in
1 bottle for five years lost an equivalent of water, and no
snger dissolved entirely in the ammoniacal citrate in an
hour. The bicalcic salt loses its crystalline water, and is
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 and water, and heat to a boil, the liquid becomes
acid, acid phosphate of lime dissolves, and a mixture of
bi- and tri-calcic phosphate remains.
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