“…Determinations are usually restricted to total volatile bases (Hillig et al, 1958;Pennington and Greenlee, 1910; Thomas and van Hauwaert, 1934;Tomiyama et al, 1956) or to ammonia or a single amine such as trimethylamine, which are investigated individually or separately from the total of other volatile basic compounds (Dyer, 1959 ;Elkaclius and King, 1957;Good and Stern, 1955). For isolating the basic volatiles from the nonvolatile material, steam distillation under atmospheric pressure and alkaline pH is often applied (Hillig et al, 1958;Stein von Kamiensky, 1957). It has been suggested, however, that under these conditions volatile bases may be produced from proteins or other nonvolatile nitrogenous substances.…”