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Carbon and Hydrogen.—Carbon compounds are frequently inflammable, and when heated on platinum foil take fipe or char and burn away. A safer test is to heat the substance with some easily reducible metallic oxide, the oxygen of which forms carbon diovide with the carbon present. Take a piece of soft glass tube about 13 cm. (5 in.) long, and fuse it together at one end. Heat a gram or two of fine copper oxide in a porcelain crucible for a few minutes to drive off the moisture, and let it cool in a desiccator. Mix it with about one-tenth of its bulk of powdered sugar in a mortar. Pour the mixture into the tube, the open end of which is now drawn out into a wide capillary and oeni. at the same time into the form Fig. i. 

Unsaturated fats, as noted in Section 13.3, tend to be liquids at room temperature. They can be transformed to a more solid consistency, however, by hydrogenation, a chemical process in which hydrogen atoms are added to carbon—carbon double bonds. Mix a partially hydrogenated vegetable oil with yellow food coloring, a little salt, and the organic compound butyric acid for flavor, and you have margarine, which become popular around the time of World War II as an alternative to butter. Many food products, such as chocolate bars, contain partially... 

Sodium perborate has been for some time in use mixed with soap, borax, alkali, etc., and is sold for laundry work under such names as Persil, Glarax, and Ozonite. It possesses detergent and bleaching properties. Since 1914 the salt NaBOj, 4H20 has been produced by electrolysis, and many recent patents deal with this process. Formerly, the only means available for preparation was that of mixing borax with hydrogen peroxide. 

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