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DR. L. G. G. WARNE1, is, of course, correct in maintaining that toluene with its boiling-point of 110.7° C. is preferable to xylol (b.p. about 135° C.) in the method recently described by me2. Unfortunately in the work which is going on at Plymouth one has to deal with large quantities of water and it is much easier to obtain xylol at the present time than it is to obtain toluene. I would like, however, to point out that the determination of water is only a comparatively small part of the work.
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LOWNDES, A. Rapid Determination of Water in Animals and Plants. Nature 149, 79 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149079a0
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