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...weaken or not," declared O. O. McIntyre, who writes "New York Day by Day" for the Hearst papers, as he commented on his column writing to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "I have a weakness and admiration for black and white checked suits, and my office is furnished completely in chromium-plated furniture...
Columbia's Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield...
Twenty million tons of iron and steel rust out of use each year. Electrolytic iron resists corrosion, but is difficult to make. Chromium alloyed with iron makes "rustless iron." "Stainless" steel contains iron, carbon and chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed...
...your interesting article (Oct. 24) describing Xavier University, first U. S. Negro Catholic college, New Orleans, appears the statement: "Many a white Southern college would look shabby beside Xavier, with its solid copper gutters, chromium equipment in the laboratory...
...every schoolboy knows, most jade is green. Yet jade when pure is white. It is made green by an admixture of other minerals, usually chromium. And it may in fact be any one of three very hard minerals: nephrite, jadeite and chloromelanite. Properly cut jade will give out a clear musical tone when struck...