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Babbled Genial Jim, orating at a London banquet after tossing off many a beaker: "When the next General Election comes-and that will not be for some years-perhaps three years...
Apparently unharmed, "he described his feelings: "I lifted the beaker to my lips. Immediately I felt a burning dry sensation in my mouth and then I could feel nothing. First my mind became excited and impressed with a feeling of crisis...
...does is put a substance to be examined into a small beaker. At the beaker's bottom lies a layer of mercury, the anode of a delicately balanced electrical system. Cathode of the system is a column of mercury which flows by separate drops (two to three seconds apart) into the substance to be analyzed. The current which flows through the system increases steadily by definite increments. Substances react in a regular way to the current. By means of a mirror galvanometer, the polarograph marks a chart when reactions occur. Professor Heyrovsky & colleagues have prepared scores of polarograph charts...
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...Liverpool, lecturing on chemistry, Professor James Foote grew thirsty, downed the contents of a beaker which he thought was full of water, died in agony before the horrified eyes of his class...