✦ LIBER ✦
American glycerol: Joseph W. England (Am. J. Pharmacy, 1932, 104, 489–494)
✍ Scribed by J.S.X
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1932
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 214
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
peroxide-free anesthetic ether marketed in copper-lined tin containers remains free from peroxide and other decomposition products even when kept at elevated temperatures for long periods of time. The same ether develops peroxide when stored in other types of containers. The metallic copper combines with any oxygen which is present, to form cuprous oxide; this, in turn, reacts with both the peroxide (if present) and its immediate precursor, which accompanies the ether in its distillation; acetic acid probably is formed. Thus formation of peroxide in the stored ether is prevented.
J. S. H.