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Word: mineralsâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...bringing a small container filled with crude oil into contact with the silken thread. The principle that would cause the indication of the presence of oil in the ground, he explained, was the natural one that "like attracts like." Furthermore, the machine would indicate other buried minerals???copper, gold, coal, iron?if properly "primed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doodleburg? | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

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