THIOPHENE

C.HS, is a compound of ‘ring’ structure occurring in coal-tar, from the crude benzene of which it can be extracted by shaking with concentrated sulphuric acid. Thiophene is a colorle volatile liquid (b.p. 84° C., sp. gr. 1.06), very closely resembling benzene, and is the parent substance of a number of derivatives. of Westminster, 1540, Norwich, 1550, Ely, 1554. Eng. bp. and historian; ed. Charter house and Trinity, Cambridge; fellow of coll. and tutor, then barrister; ordained, 1827; liberal theology; author of History of Greece; bp. of St. David’s, 1840; learned to preach in Welsh; supported removal of Jewish disabilities, 1848, and Trish Church Disestablishment, 1869; buried in Westminster Abbey, in same grave with Grote