Two common qualitative tests for unsaturation are the reaction of the compounds with bromine in carbon tetrachloride and with potassium permanganate. In both cases a positive test is denoted by decolorization of the reagent.wo common qualitative tests for unsaturation are the reaction of the compounds with bromine in carbon tetrachloride and with potassium permanganate. In both cases a positive test is denoted by decolorization of the reagent.
On this day in 1917, the text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America.
I'll treat the question as reasonable and put it in the following context: if something like the enticements in the Zimmermann Telegram had been acted upon by Mexico and Germany and actually executed as the settlement of a presumably victorious ...