Formaldehyde → Phosphoric Acid

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189 grams of 95% paraformaldehyde were dissolved in the heat in 700 grams of ethanol together with 1 gram of sodium hydroxide and heated to reflux. Then in an interval of 3 hours there were added in two equal parts 732 grams of a hot guanidine dihydrogen phosphate solution which had been previously produced from 360 grams of guanidine carbonate (2 moles) and 461 grams of 85% phosphoric acid (4 moles). After the second addition the mixture was heated at reflux for a further 5 hours, then allowed to cool and drawn off. The product corresponds in the molar ratios to those of Examples 5, is dilutable in ethanol and has the composition, solids 49.7%, ethanol 43.2% and water 7.1%.

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