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The hydrocarbon content of beeswax is a potentially useful analytical tool. Values for hydrocarbon appear in the literature from about 1890 (1). Two general methods have been most used, those of A. and P. Buisine (5) and of Leys (4). The former converted alcohols in the unsaponifiable fraction to acids by heating with potash-lime; hydrocarbons were the remaining petroleum ether-soluble material.
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