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Foul Eating Gear. Germ-carrying utensils and dishes in public restaurants are a general menace. W. A. Hadfield and J. W. Yates of Madison, Wis., advised that all eating gear, after washing, be soaked for at least one minute in rinse water to which sodium hypochlorite has been added. Chlorine is liberated and kills bacteria...
...eighth most frequent element in the world, being preceded quantitatively by oxygen 49.78%, silicon 26.08%, aluminium 7.34%, iron 4.11%, calcium 3.19%, magnesium 2.24%, sodium 2.33%, then potassium 2.28%. All other elements are less than...
Some years ago a German physician reported that workers in the mines could be relieved from fatigue by small doses of sodium phosphate. Now Professor Neville Moss of the University of Birmingham claims that miners working in a temperature of about 100° become exhausted less easily when drinking water that contains even 0.2% of common salt. The British physiologist, J. S. Haldane, explains this as due to the fact that the salt added to the drinking water makes up for that taken from the body by perspiration. Scientists are inclined to regard the matter as empirical and await controlled...
Increase of 3c to 4 ½c on sodium nitrate (TIME...
Spanish moss, which grows in long gray festoons on Southern trees, has no roots and subsists entirely on what it gets from the air. Yet its ashes contain large amounts of sodium, iron, silicon, sulphur, chlorine. Whence these elements? Chlorine, sodium, sulphur may be carried high in the air by ocean spray, and come down in rain. The presence of the iron and silicon is a puzzle.-Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, Dr. Ruth Buchanan, U. S. Department of Agriculture...