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ame hand; the _Roteiro_ of Vasco da Gama's First Voyage (_Journal of the First Voyage of ... Da Gama_, Hakluyt Soc., ed. E. G. Ravenstein (1898), pp. 9, 14); Ramusio, _Navigationi_ (3rd ed.), vol. i. fol. 144; Castanheda, _Historia_, bk. i. ch. 1; Galvano, _Descobrimentos (Discoveries of the World)_, Hakluyt Soc. (1862), p. 77; E. G. Ravenstein, "Voyages of ... Cao and ... Dias," in _Geog. Journ._ (London, December 1900), vol. xvi. pp. 638-655), an excellent critical summary in the light of the most recent investigations of all the material. The fragments of Diaz's only remaining pillar (from Diaz Point) are now partly at the Cape Museum, partly at Lisbon: the latter are photographed in Ravenstein's paper in _Geog. Journ._ (December 1900, p. 642). (C. R. B.) DIAZO COMPOUNDS, in organic chemistry, compounds of the type R.N.2.X (where R = a hydrocarbon radical, and X = an acid radical or a hydroxyl group). These compounds may be divided into two classes, namely, the true diazo compounds, characterized by the grouping - N = N -, and the diazonium compounds, characterized by the grouping N:.N<. The diazonium compounds were first discovered by P. Griess (_Ann._, 1858, 106, pp. 123 et seq.), and may be prepared by the action of nitrous fumes on a well-cooled solution of a salt of a primary amine, C6H5NH2.HNO3 + HNO2 = C6H5N2.NO3 + 2H2O, or, as is more usually the case (since the diazonium salts themselves are generally used only in aqueous solution) by the addition of a well-cooled solution of potassium or sodium nitrite to a well-cooled dilute acid solution of the primary amine. In order to isolate the anhydrous diazonium salts, the method of E. Knoevenagel (_Ber._, 1890, 23, p. 2094) may be employed. In this process the amine salt is dissolved in absolute alcohol and diazotized by the addition of amyl nitrite; a crystalline precipitate of the diazonium salt is formed on standing, or on the addition of a small quantity of ether. The diazonium salts are also formed by the action of zinc-dust and acids on the nitrates of primary amines (R. Mohlau, _Ber._, 1883, 16, p. 3080), and by the action of hydroxylamine on nitrosobenzenes. They are colourless crystalline solids which turn brown on exposure. They dissolve easily in water, but only to a slight extent in alcohol and ether. They are very unstable, exploding violently when heated or rubbed. _Benzene diazonium nitrate_, C6H5N(NO3):.N, c
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