The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-14
OLD Tin CANS.
The Way They Finally Disappear From
Human Sight.

Truman oiSHt.
Few people realize what becomes OF
oil tie old tin cans, tin pans, kettles.
buckets coal hods and the like They
Gnaly disappear from human sight
aud knowledge and are seen no more
Science shows that they eyaporate.
When tin can is cast away aud for
eakem 1t begins rs downward course
by becoming rusty The tin oxidizes or
In other words, untes with the oxygen
surrounding It In the atmosphere. and
the oxide Of tin gradually takes leave
Of the iron by evHporating into the air,
willie some 0f &c IS washed away by
the rain into the earth After the tin
IS gone the iron OF the can Follows the
same course th1t has been pursued by
the tin. IL oxidlzcs and becomes the
familiar reddish brown Substance
known as iron rust The metals have
no wills Of their own. 10 afiinities. no
understandings. ana therefore no in
tentious as to their present or future
course They do nothing of them
selves. l3ut electrical forces 10 their
work for them These forces unite the
atoms cf the metals with those " the
oxygen. Then the molecules OF these
oxie cs are carried away by the atmos-
phe,ic electricity ana disposed Of ac-
corlng to circumstances.
II a small bottle or other piece Of
glass be placed on damp ground aud
an old wornout tin bucket is turned
over q, the particles Of iron oxide viii
be taken away by electric currents
from the Oil bucket and will be de-
posted partly on the glass, the re-
malndcr soing into the air aud the
earth Deposits Of iron aud other met
MS are thus carried around by elec-
tricity in the atmosphere from place
10 place all over the earth. Chlorine
by electric power picks M atoms Of
| gold and goes with them to the ocean.
whore they are as much at home as
salt An metals can exist in a state
OF vapor; therefore they are to be
found not only IN the atmosphere
around this earth, but also in the at
uiosphere around the sun and the
stars. II a ray OF sunlight is bent out
Of It's course. rs it is by drops Of water
In the case OF the rainbow the famllla
seven colors OF red. orange. yellow
green. blue. indigo and violet ar
spread out side by side When the
spectra or sireaks OF light are scienti
Ically Investigated about 600 dark lines
are formed also among the colors. aud
these lines represent shadows east by
elemental substances in the atmos-
pheres Of the earth and the sun Eight
made artiacially and not passing
through the atmosphere OF the earth
ana the sun does not have these dark
lines
By means of the spectroscope. grad.
ually invented instrument now In use
but credited to several scientists, well
known elements have been compelled
| 70 register their addresses in bands OF
| light Among the first TO write them
selves down We're sodium potassium
and iron. Aud the same apparatus
led to the discovery OF new metals
such as cesium, ruhldiGn aud tballium
All these are found 10 be Ia the suns
atmosphere. BY means of the spectre
scope the one hundred mlllionth part
/ Of a grain of sOdium IN common salt
becomes as discernible aud unmistak.
able as the side Of a house This won.
! derul modern instrument has enabled
| scientists 10 find out what the peo,
/ pie who inhabit the planets in the
solar system of the dog star Sirius. fol
example, hnve TO eat. for without nj.
/ trogen they could lave no beans or
spring peas, without sulphur no mus.
tard horseradish nnd water crosses or
anything OF the kind although the peo
PIE Would be confined 10 vegetable diet
They would also be without light bis
cult for breakfast or any fermented
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