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...noteworthy that neutrons have been recognized as coming from elements which are the lightest of their groups in the Periodic System. Beryllium is the lightest of the earth alkali group (beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, radium). Boron is lightest of the earth metals (boron, aluminum, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, actinium). Fluorine is lightest of the halogens (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and, newly recognized, alabamine...
Millman is at work on a thesis concerned with meteors. He attributed the greenish light of the meteor to a large magnesium content which in a vaporized state brought about by the intense heat of friction combines with atoms of the rarified air to form an incandescent gas cap rushing before the meteor...
...Keeping the temperature at 3,000°-600° below the vaporization point of graphite-Engineer Chesnut could drop objects through the tube, watch what happened in the hellish interior. Wood was instantly reduced to vapor, burning as a sudden jet of gas. Rocks quickly became vaporized, silicon and magnesium gases shot out into the air burning with a white flame. The furnace was kept at 3,000° for more than five hours. Iron was put in. It turned to gas, formed a carbide, remained as such while the temperature was raised toward the 3,600° vaporization point...
...nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also iron, magnesium) makes oysters a fine blood-builder in the human diet...
...experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...