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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
| NATURAL PRODUCTION OF ALCOHOL.[1] |
By GASTON TISSANDIER.
M. A. MÜNTZ, of the French National Agronomical Institute, announces that he has discovered traces of alcohol as a natural product in cultivated soil, rain-water, sea and river-water, and the atmosphere. He has detected the product, it is true, only in the most
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infinitesimal quantities, but he has established the fact of its existence by analyses which are at once simple, clear, and convincing.
- ↑ Translated from "La Nature."
