“…Buerger,Smith,et aZ.,4,6,17 postulate the existence of at least nine discrete phases of saturated soaps, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, sigma, epsilon, mu, kappa and zeta, regarding most or all of them as stoichiometric fractional hydrates. Ferguson,et al,7•9 maintain that there are but four distinguishable phases, alpha, beta, delta and omega, alpha being a hemihydrate and beta, and presumably the others, solid solutions of water in soap.…”