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...upon the aluminum disc of earlier experiments. It was a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin and three inches in diameter, supported against the 100-pound suction of the vacuum tube by skeleton struts of molybdenum. The molecular structure of nickel is such that molecules of air (oxygen, nitrogen) cannot pass through it, though it offers a minimum of resistance to those billionth parts of molecules, electrons...
...succeeded in making synthetic petroleum, not as a laboratory curiosity, but by a process commercially practicable. This announcement was made and received as being far more important than other fuel-substitute discoveries lately made- coal dust in the U. S. and Germany, fagots in France (Time, Oct. 11). Submitting oxygen, hydrogen and coal to a pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which readily refined to kerosene, gasoline and the usual by-products of that "black gold" which nature only makes after centuries of compression...
Drunks. At Utrecht, orderly Netherlandish city, P. M. v. Wulff-ten Palthe found that pure oxygen is a powerful antidote against the effects of alcohol. He gave rabbits enough alcohol to kill them, quickly brought them almost to normal with oxygen. Two delirium tremens cases he soothed at once by the same gas. Several tipplers whom he invited to his laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk...
...researchers have already studied the preventive effect of oxygen on alcoholic poisoning. Further, it has long been known that fresh air helps to overcome intoxication, permits prolonged, although intermittent, drinking...
Hottest Flame. Dr. Irving Langmuir of the General Electric Company described his discovery of a flame hotter than hydrogen burning in oxygen (oxy-hydrogen). He made atomic hydrogen burn in an atmosphere of molecular hydrogen. His hydrogen blowtorch melted tungsten wire like an icicle, indicating that its heat was at least 7,000° F. Playing on a sheet of chrome steel the flame left molten pools behind it. Significance: steel girders could be welded silently instead of noisily riveted;* the welds would not (as when an oxyhydrogen flame is used) be oxidized and thus weakened, they would be annealing...