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
edit- ^ Thomson, Thomas (1838). Chemistry of Organic Bodies: Vegetables. Maclachlan & Stewart. p. 748.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Goldschmidt, G. (1879). Watts, Henry (ed.). Journal of the Chemical Society. The Chemical Society of London. p. 167.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Idrialin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 289.
