Methylic pyridene carboxylate is almost inactive, but the corresponding ammonium salt gives rise to symptoms resembling epilepsy--(Ramsay, Phil.
Hence the term "methylated" ether is misleading, for it contains nomethylic ether, but is essentially a somewhat impure ethylic ether.
The methylicether can be used over and over again with only little waste.
It stands to ethylic alcohol (ordinary alcohol) in the same relation in which the latter stands to methylic alcohol (pyroxylic spirit).
It might be supposed that, owing to the low boiling-point of methylic alcohol, simple distillation would effect this; but experience has shown that both spirits distil over simultaneously.
A mixture of 1 part of methylic alcohol (wood spirit) and 9 parts of ethylic alcohol (spirit of wine).
The agent used in the latter case for the production of cold was methylic ether.
Flood the unfixed film with the stain, allow it to act for 3 minutes (the methylic alcohol of the stain fixes the film).
When a sirup of this kind is stirred with three times its volume of methylic alcohol, a marked turbidity and deposition will take place, which consists of pure sugar.
This form of adulteration may be very easily detected by the use of strongmethylic alcohol, in which the alcoholometer of Tralles or of Gay Lussac will indicate about 93½°.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "methylic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
