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Heavy water is only 10% heavier than ordinary water, slightly more viscous, boils at 214½° F. instead of 212°. Guppy fish, tadpoles and flatworms die in it, but mice fed with it seem to get tipsy. It has been found in slightly higher than normal concentration (one part in 4,500) in the Dead Sea, the Great Salt Lake, the sap and wood of willow trees, borax deposits. The hydrogen of honey, coal benzene and kerosene was found comparatively rich in D. But in the Sun's atmosphere only one atom...
...making rayon by the viscose process, cellulose is first reduced to a viscous mass. For Sniafiocco the stuff is passed through a fine-mesh screen; the threads are coagulated, cut, finished. They are then ready for the spinner. Snia Viscosa loudly protests against labeling Sniafiocco a synthetic or substitute cotton. It is superior to cotton, say the Italians, in that the staple length of its fibre is precisely even and can be given any length wanted by the spinner, and that it is free of dirt and leaves which contaminate raw cotton. Thus although Sniafiocco fibre costs more than cotton...
...true homogeneous system when combined with other substances. They retain their identity as particles of ultramicroscopic size (from 1 to 100 millionths of a millimetre) when dispersed in another medium. Pulverized coal when added to oil will settle out almost immediately. It was known that in an extremely viscous oil coal pulverized as small as 1/10,000 of a mm. would sink with less speed. Also surface energies on the particles would tend to keep the mixture more stable. With coal ground so fine that it would pass through a sieve of 80 meshes to the cm. the sinking would...
...recitation buildings and Widener. By this diversion of student traffic a minor annoyance has become a public nuisance. I refer to the condition of the sidewalks on the west side of Quincy Street. During the last few days of thaw the curbings have enclosed a river of viscous, soupy, yellow mud quite impossible to walk in without acquiring an ample coating on one's shoes and trousers...
...such depths, or deeper, Dr. Shapley would have his plutonic laboratories. Ph. D. moles would record the pulsations of the earth's crust which, according to one theory, is as rigid as steel and as elas- tic, rather than viscous, like stiff pitch. They would verify the hypothesized drift of North America from Europe and South America from Africa. (As can be seen on a globe, the continents would roughly fit together.) Such scientific gnomes might be able to determine the existence of an interstellar ether. They could certainly measure the relation of earth heat to earth depth. They...