The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-20

about the same time He assumes u be no more than
than the secretary and the interpreter OF chance event
AT INST, he traced out circle connected with
this phenomenon every point Of which he proposed to
explore successfully but he found that the circle
wdened every day till at last he obliged TO confess
that it is boundles Without presumption he ventures
TO assert that the discovery opens VIDE career to
physical and chemical experiments and is likely 10
bring about important notifications in several theories
which, in the actual state of science regarded su
cient and true And thus scientific revolution or at
least great step in advance, will be owing to the pre-
ciptauon OF few grains Of potato starch For the thou
sandh time find the greatest results brought about by
the slightest The bowng-u up Of steam boilers
whether for boats for locomotives to be rendered
next to impossible The mystery of fire balls from heaven
will be explained meteoroogsts will have TO erase from
their chapter lightning form of meteor which has
no analogy to lightning proper namely, to that which
darts in straight zigzag lines Such balls Of fire will
henceforth be styled 'spheroida lightning" The ndul-
gence of biologists has to be entreated for theory
to the formation of coal which is than suspected
to have completely different origin to that present
assigned to it. 1t is simply carbonate of hydrogen
crbure hydrogene) condensed and passing into spher
oidl state and precipated from the atmosphere du
ring its gradual process of cooling ago. The pre-
adamite plants found mixed up Herewith merely
cdental additions swept into at long posteror epoch
by floods and watercourses In short coal basin il sim
ply dish Of stewed vegetables Of which the sauce the
coal itself is the primitive basis To have curied fowl
veal fish, you first prepare the curry ITSELF and then
add the thing to be curied whatever may be exactly
of the vegetable tissue which the microscope detects in
the substance Of the coal itself Coal aspeces of dark
coored mayannaise invented before cooks kitchens
thought Of for the preparation Of salad
The origin and the future destiny of coal thus summed
up Goal from the atmosphere by precipitation,
and returns to the atmosphere by combustion.
Such are samples of what may dc dedced from the OBJ
servaton Of drop Of cold water dancing the surface
of red-hot iron plate
The spheroida state then--an expression which has
now taken its permanent place in scientific anguageis
the phrase employed by NJ Boutigny to denote the mole
cuar notifications of matter, whose occurrence he first
published to the world in 1912. Those notifications
consist of the very remarkable phenomena presented by
bodies which thrown surfaces heated to tempe
ture higher than their 1.-THE respective bodes boiling
point Thus drop of liquid let fall heated metal
plate does not instantly fly off in yapor might at
first believe that il would do but remains trembling and
spinning for short definite time, without suffering any
visible change dimnution The drop has passed to
the spheroa state At the outset of the study of these
novel facts it believed that white heat,
thing like fifteen hundred degrees of cengrade, was re-
Quired throw waite INTO the spheroidal state NJ Bou
tigny has demonstrated that it easily acquires those
ditone at two hundred degrees, with somewhat greater
difficulty hundred and seventyOn degrees and that
it maintains them while sinking low hundred
and forty two degrees.
Bodies in the spheroda state possess the property of
almost absolutely rejecting (Which implies casting off,
not-receving of radated heat This very remarka-
BILE property Of such bodiestha is that they absolutely
refuse to take in calorc from without, unless cominuni
Gated by actual contact confirms the bold hypothesis Of
the age namely that which Hersche first put forth re-
spectng the temperature and physical constitution of the
SUM- almost proving that great central globe of fire
is habitable by beings like ourselves.
All bodies capable of assuming the spheroidal state
There no contact between bodies in the spheroida
state and the surface which throws them into that cond
ton. The light of candle and the electric spark
visible of course in darxened ROOM between the sphe
rod and the heated metal plate Asotc acid in the sphe
roda state however concentrated does not attack the
hot surfar Nvbic rpufa aAltu
Immediately corrode slip of cold silver presented to It,
The fact Of contact be further illustrated by
experiment which may almost be called astronomical.
nearly plane botomed silver capsule is headed and
is poured quantity of water sufficiently considerable
to form very attencd ellipsod. An iron, or better
solid silver cylinder of something less than half an inch
diameter, is brought to white heat and plunged into
the middle of the epsoid which contact being impos
sibe) forms around the cylinder ring, which has been
compared rightly wrongly, to the ring of Saturn.
Maupertuis boached the opinion that the ring of Saturn
consisted of congcaed water, which received in its
day great absurdy. With the silver cylinder ito
avoid the oxide which clings to iron surface and with
water deeply coloed black blue the results of this
pertinent became still more precise and remarkable.
BY another experiment. simple it sounds strange,
NJ. Boutgny resolves the paradoxica problem Given
vessel "a small, very thick hollow, hemisphercal bowl
Of sver) to fill it with water without wctng it, and to
make the water boil by cooling the vessel which contains
it &F
The brilliant experiment of the combustion of iron in
oxygen gas is spectacle at lectures chemis
try In it, the gobues Of melted oxide observed to
traverse the water contained in the jar, and to become
ncrusted in the very substance of the glass In expla
nation of this phenomenon, IL is generally stated that
the temperature of the globules exceedingly high
that after passing through the stratum of water they
still retain sufficient heat to eat into the glass, which
they to suffer partial fusion. Now, it is quite
true that the temperature of these gobues of oxide of
iron is very high and it So because they pass through
the water without being wetted by, coming in
contact WITH it and that is the why they able
To penetrate the glass by melting it, II the hot drops of
oxide of iron made to pass through deeper stratum
of water they would become wettcd during their course
of which fact notice would be given by peculiar kissing
sound and they would fall to the bottom of the jar like
leaden shot.
Those learned toys, Prince Rupert's drops
the 'larmes Batavques whose sudden disruption on
the pressure of tbef tails curious and startling to
young beginners gloules of melted glass thrown in
to vessel of cold water These Batavian tears remain
ncandescent for certain time, without the water Civ
ing any sign of ebuon, at least ut the
of the experiment
rlacksmiths fond of making display which con
sists in throwing few drops of water upon mass
Of glowing metal and then striking it forcbly with
their hammer at tbe& spot where those drops are
lodged The consequence is violent defamation 1t is
certain that the blow establishes contact between the
iron and the water The defamation is probably caused
Ivy the sudden transformation Of the spheodal
steam and the iron itself is polished clean il its
de mechanically removed by the exploding vapor
There feats performed even by villagers such
licking redhot poker with the tongue, taking the
heated end ia the hand without being burnt which are
nexpicabe unless be had to the properties
bodies in the sphcroidal state But the theory of such
phenomena very simple and accords with the laws which
have been already detailed The moisture of the tongue