To separate the paraffin from the sulphur the residue is heated with a solution of ammonium sulphide.  After cooling the paraffin collects as a crust upon the surface of the liquid, and by pricking a small hole through it with a glass rod the liquid underneath can be poured off, and the paraffin then washed with water, dried, and weighed.  Sulphur is found by difference.  Mr F.W.  Smith (Jour.  Amer.  Chem.  Soc., 1901, 23 [8], 585-589) determines the sulphur in dynamite gelatine as follows:—­About 2 grms. are warmed in a 100 c.c. silver crucible on the water bath with an alcoholic solution of sodium hydroxide, and where the nitro-glycerine is decomposed, the liquid is evaporated to dryness.  The residue is fused with 40 grms. of KOH and 5 grms. of potassium nitrate, the mass dissolved in dilute acetic acid and filtered, and the sulphates precipitated in the usual way.  If camphor is present, it can be extracted with bisulphide of carbon after the material has been treated with ether-alcohol.  In that case the sulphur, paraffin, and resin will also be dissolved.  The camphor being easily volatile, can be separated by evaporation.  Let the weight of the extract, freed from ether-alcohol before treatment with bisulphide of carbon, equal A, and the weight of extract after treatment with CS_{2} and evaporation of the same equal B; and weight of the residue which is left after evaporation of the CS_{2} and the camphor in solution equal C, the percentage of camphor will be A — B — C. The residue C may contain traces of nitro-glycerine, resin, or sulphur.

Camphor may be separated from nitro-glycerine by means of CS_{2}.  If the solution of camphor in nitro-glycerine be shaken with CS_{2}, the camphor and a little of the nitro-glycerine will dissolve.  The bisulphide solution is decanted, or poured into a separating funnel and separated from the nitro-glycerine.  The two solutions are then heated on the water bath to 20 deg.  C. and then to 60 deg.  C., and afterwards in a vacuum over CaCl_{2} until the CS_{2} has evaporated from them.  The camphor evaporates, and leaves the small quantity of nitro-glycerine which had been dissolved with it.  The other portion is the nitro-glycerine, now free from CS_{2}.  The two are weighed and their weights added together, and equals the nitro-glycerine present.  There is a loss of nitro-glycerine, it being partly evaporated along with the CS_{2}.  Captain Hess has shown that it is equal to about 1.25 per cent.  This quantity should therefore be added to that found by analysis.  Morton Liebschutz, in a paper in the Moniteur Scientifique for January 1893, very rightly observes that the variety of dynamites manufactured is very great, all of them having a special composition which, good or bad, is sometimes of so complicated a nature that the determination of their elements is difficult.