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Every word of the extensive title is draught with relevant symbolism. Sodium obviously is to be taken as representative of activity righteous, of course, Salt implies well seasoned matter. The stability of the benzene nucleus is well known to chemists, as are the cleansing properties of the napthols. Then disulphonic acid is suggestive of fiery rebuke to iniquitous actions. However, in the abridged forms, proposed by the Herald, much of this significance is lost. Only the complete title does itself justice; and only the complete title attains to a sonorous dignity. This objection is not vital, but years of experience...
...sodium salt of benzene azo-8-acetylanimo-napthol-disulphonic acid has been discovered by reputable chemists to be the exact equivalent of crimson. Delightful predictions have been made by the Boston Herald to the effect that the Harvard Crimson will now be titled the Daily Sodium Salt of the Daily Azo-8, the abbreviated terms being necessitated by the limitations of proof reading. The originality of these oracular murmuring is unimpeachable; their pertinence unexcelled. Without doubt the prophecies will stimulate profound and wide-spread reflection...
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...
...iodin in the city water since people frequently go from an iodin-poor district to an iodin-rich one and never notice any change in the water or any effects on themselves. The water supplies of Rochester, N. Y., and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., are now being treated with sodium iodin...
...President Coolidge by proclamation increased the import tariff on sodium nitrate from 3? to 4½? a pound. Investigation by the Tariff Commission showed that the manufacture of that commodity was 4½? a pound cheaper in Norway, the principal competing country. This is the second time that a President has availed himself of the "flexible" provision of the Tariff Act to alter duties. The first occasion was when Mr. Coolidge increased the tariff on wheat and wheat products (TIME, March...