The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

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 Copper castings treated with vanadium have q tensile strengtk of ninety-three thousand pounds to resisting power when used for bear-- ings. property that will be appreci- ated by railroad and other large useru of journal bearings. It also opens up new possibilities for the use of cop- per. Aluminium castings when a small quantity of vanadium has been added. have a tensile strength of l03,0O0 pounds, with largely increased hard- ness and malIeability. but no apprecf- able Increase in weight. This meann that where 1t Is desirable to do so a structure having the strength of steel with only one-third it's weight may be l linstalled Vanadium has an extreme avidity for oxygen. Very slight quan- | tities of 1t in bath of steel in fusion lead'to the immediate and absolute re- duction of every trace of iron oxide in
 the mass. These traces. inevitabls without the use of vanadium, cause
 the rupture of the best steel. Crystals.
 even microscopic, would act like the
 stroke of diamond on the thickest glass. Vanadium steels acquire their maximum hardness, not by tempering put by annealing at TOO to 800 degrees ICentigrade.
 Tho discovery of a, connmercialIy practicable method of procuring van- adiuni seems to promise most im-I portant effect on the steel industry :. Steel Is the most important metal known to man. Any process. there- fore, which will increase the efficiency or the metal required for given pur- pose will reduce the cost to the con- sumer by just that much--or increase the profits of the steel trust
 The metal Is a silver white lustrous. crystalline powder that is unaffected
 by the air at ordinary Temperatures. It melts at 2.000 degrees Centigrade. and Is not attacked by hydrochloric or sulphuric acid. but Is easily soluble in nitric or hydrofiuoric acid. In addition to the purposes already mentioned, it is used for the highest grade black for printing silks and ealicos
 The metal is extracted from an ore that looks exactly like sandstone. In fact 1t Is sandstone of a bright yeI- low color. There are inexhaustib1e de~ posfts of 1t in the Paradox Valley and elsewhere in Western Colorado. It has also been found in the lava from Vesuvius and the spectroscopet shows that 1t exists in the sun in considerable quantities.. though probably not largo enough quantities to pay to work.
 cAAoNA1Ah POSSGSEcB pTODSFL1G8 auAIa ogous to those of radium. It Is found in carnotite, from which radium is ex- tracted. Indeed. there are SO many possibilities bound up in vanadium that Mir. Frenzel has contributed S250 to a fund for Investigating the physi- cal properties of vanadium steel bN the Colorado State School of Mines as Golden.
 MT. Frenzel has also offered in the same school prize of s250 for the inc vestigation of the occurrence of rare minerals in Colorado and their applf- cation and $100 worth oE-text books tc the students most proficient in this work. He also offered the Electro- Chemical Society of New York a prizs of s250 for original research in rara elements.
 All this prize giving is the result of Mir Frenzeps discovery of his vaua- dium mine and a cheap process of ex s tracting the metal. and a resultant hope that he may make another big find, for colorado seems to be a sort of store- house for rare minerals. to say noth- ing of an abundant supply of the. oth-- CT kind. When a mineralogist doesn's see what he wants he just goes out to Colorado and digs around until ho
 finds 1t. There Is an abundance Of ura- mum, valuable as an alloy, largely used in photography and for produc- ing the amber color in glass and beau- tiful colors on pottery and porcelain <, It is found in Colorado. When painters mixed their own colors they used ura- mum oxides. not rare In Colorado. It Is used as an alloy in making steel in silk dyeing. in the making of paints and in the manufacture of smokeIess powder sCad- mfum, which Edison says he needs for his wonderful new storage batteries. is found in Colorado. Inexhaustible deposits of pitchblende and carnotita are found in Colorado. Gilsonite and elaterite are minerals lately found in the same State. But the very latest is montroseite, a mineral that outshfnan all the other radioactive ores yea known. It was found near Montrose., ], Indeed, since MT. Frenzers success with vanadium the people of the Cen- tennial State have gone mad over rara minerals and are discovering them faster than they can be classified hv the experts. So now when a man findn a new substance he picks up any old name that happens to be lying around. adds ite to 1t and, behold, new mineral is given to the world
 The discoverer of the cheap process
 NNAa0Aubif WHICH DrOmfS8M to have such far-reaching effects, im a most fntegesting personality. Tn ana pearance hs is a combination of q cola lcge professor and a successful mer~ chant. with an extra touch of alertnesn not usual in either. He is keen bua- mess manawh has genius for turnS ing his hand to whatsoever the exiRens cies of the moment may require. Not only Is he a mineralogist and geoIo~ gist who can find where things oughs to be, but he Is also a sturdy miner. who can swing pick and shovel witi the best of them to prove his theory by producing the ore. He can and he does go out prospecting; he superins tends the development of the mine and takes a hand in the. work. At his Den~ yer laboratory he wields skillfully the tools of the carpenter. the timer and the blacksmith; also he is a master of chemistry. When he Is at homo ha spends ten hours or more a day in fn- vestigating. examining, testing and exc perimenting. The time he has devoted to his novel researches has been prof- itably spent, for ne has accumulated a srug fortune at it.
 Officer in Smallest Company.