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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been much conjecture in Germany, however, on just this point of cheapening Miethe's process. Over ten years ago an engineer named Lohmann built an electrical smelting furnace which succeeded in dissolving iron, aluminum, sodium and other metals into new and dif- ferent substances, as well as making diamonds out of wolframite. The latest model of Lohmann's furnace can create a heat of 4,000 degrees centigrade. German scientists are debating what will happen when Miethe's experiment is tried in Lohmann's furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Gold | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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