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GLYPTOTHEK (from Gr. y?tnrros, carved, and OiiKf, a place of storage)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 148 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GLYPTOTHEK (from Gr. y?tnrros, carved, and OiiKf, a place of storage) , an architectural
term
  given to a gallery for the exhibition of sculpture, and first employed at
Munich
 , where it was built to exhibit the sculptures from the temple of Aegina.
hydes, thus:
3 (CH 2) 2C H C HO +KHO = (CH 3)2CHCO2K + (CH,)2CHCH(OH)CH(OH)CH(CH,)2.
The tertiary glycols are known as pinacones and are formed on the reduction of
ketones
  with sodium amalgam.
The glycols are somewhat thick liquids, of high boiling point, the pinacones only being crystalline solids; they are readily soluble in water and
alcohol
 , but are insoluble in
ether
 . By the action of dehydrating agents they are converted into aldehydes or
ketones
 . In their general behaviour towards oxidizing agents the
primary
  glycols behave very similarly to . the
ordinary
 
primary
 
alcohols
  (q.v.), but the secondary and tertiary glycols
break down, yielding compounds with a smaller carbon content.
Ethylene glycol, C2H4(OH)2, was first prepared by A.
Wurtz
  (Ann. chim., 1859 [31, 55, p. 400) from ethylene dibromide and silver acetate. It is a somewhat pleasant smelling liquid, boiling at 197 to 197.5 C., and having a specific gravity of 1.125 (0). On fusion with solid potash at 250 C. it completely decomposes, giving potassium oxalate and hydrogen,


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