It combines with water in any proportion; a property which distinguishes it from pyroacetic ether and spirit.
It is now called also pyroacetic ether, and formerly was called pyroacetic spirit.
By the ordinary process we obtain sundry volatile products, among which are pyroacetic acid and carburetted hydrogen gas.
The various modes of charring, the woods employed, the quantity of coal obtained, the formation of pyroacetic acid in the process of carbonization, and many facts of the same kind are considered.
The first volatile product is the pyroacetic acid.
Pyroacetic acid is said to be a powerful antiseptic.
When soot is well washed in water, in order to free it from saline and other soluble matter, and probably from pyroacetic acid, and then pulverized, it forms the pigment called bistre.
Pyroxylic spirit is distinguished from acetone or pyroacetic spirit by the character of its flame, and by freely dissolving chloride of calcium, which is quite insoluble in the latter.
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