Mitscherlich test

The Mitscherlich test is used in forensic medicine for determining whether phosphorus is present in the stomach. 

You will now understand why, being preoccupied, for the reasons already given, with a possible relation between the hemihedry of the tartrates and their rotative property, Mitscherlich s note of 1844 should recur to my memory. I thought at once that Mitscherlich was mistaken on one point. He had not observed that his double tartrate was hemihedral while his paratartrate was not. If this is so, the results in his note are no longer estraordinary and further, I should have, in this, the best test of my preconceived idea as to the inter-relation of hemihedry and the rotatory phenomenon. 

Physica) tests for explosives, 65 Phosphorus, dark red, detection of, in match compositions- Dusart and Bloudlot a method, 133 Mitscherlich s method, 134 detection of white in matches— Aronstrin s method, 139 general remarks, 100, 140 Schcnck and ScharfT s.method, 138 Thorpe method, 140 Van lujk a method, 140 Phosphorus, determination of percentages of white and red in amorphous phosphorus, 100... 

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