To the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry:—Your subcommittee submits the following report: The Oxychlorine Chemical Company, 1326 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, states in its advertising literature that:
“Chemically, Oxychlorine is the tetraborate of sodium and potassium combined with oxychlorid of boron, thus: 6 (NaKB4O7) BOCl3.”
Analysis of Oxychlorine showed:
| Potassium | 12.26 | per cent. |
| Sodium | 8.20 | per cent. |
| Chloric acid—CLO3 | 25.32 | per cent. |
| Nitric acid—NO3 | 21.70 | per cent. |
| Boric acid anhydrid—B2O3 | 18.63 | per cent. |
| Water, calculated | 13.29 | per cent. |
Thus, Oxychlorine is not a definite chemical substance of the composition claimed, but instead is a mixture of alkali chlorate and nitrate with boric acid. Assuming that the chlorate is present as potassium chlorate and the nitrate as sodium nitrate, the analysis above quoted corresponds to a mixture approximately as follows:
Potassium chlorat | 37.19 |
Sodium nitrate | 29.76 |
Sodium and potassium tetraborate | 2.18 |
Boric acid | 30.52 |
Undetermined | 0.35 |
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| 100.00 | |
Your committee recommends that Oxychlorine be not approved and that this report be published.
The report of the subcommittee was adopted by the Council, and in accordance with the recommendation is published herewith.
W. A. Puckner, Secretary.