The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-16
oLp bon CANS.
The Way They Finally Disappear From
Human Sight

The Way They Finally Disappear From
Human Sight.
Few people realize what becomes OF
all the old tin cans, tin pans, kettles,
buckets, coal hods and the like. They
finally disappear from human sight
aud knowledge and are seen no more
Science shows that they eyaporate.
When a tin can Is cast away and for
saken 1t begins It's downward course
by becoming rusty. The tin oxidizes or,
Ia other words, unites with the oxygen
surrounding It In the atmosphere, aud
the oxide of tin gradually takes leave
OF the iron By evaporatlng into the air.
while some OF 1t is washed away 10y
the rain into the earth. after the tin
Is gone the iron of the can follows the
same course that has been pursued By
the tin. 1t oxidlzes and becomes the
familiar reddish brown substance
known as iron rust. The metals have
no wills Of their own, no afiinities, no
Understandings, and therefore no in.
tentions as to their present or future
course. They do nothing of them.
selves. But electrical forces do their
work for them. These forces unite the
atoms Of the metals with those of the
oxygen. Theh the molecules OF these
oxides are carried away by the atmos-
phe9ic electricity and disposed Of ac-
eorling TO circumstances.
If a small bottle or other piece of
glags be placed on damp ground and
an old wornout tin bucket is turned
over IT, the particles OF iron oxide Will
be taken away by electric currents
from the OLD bucket aud viii be de-
posted partly on the glass, the re-
malnder going into the air and the
earth. Deposits of iron ana other met
ais are thus carried around by cleo
tricity in the atmosphere from place
TO place all over the earth. Chlorine
by electric power picks up atoms OF
gold and goes with them to the ocean
where they are as much at home MS
salt All metals can exist in state
of vapor; therefore they are TO be
found not only IN the atmosphere
around this earth. but also in the at
mosphere around the sun and the
stars. If a ray OF sunlight IS bent oui
OF It's course. as it Is by Crops Of watef
In the ease OF the rainbow the familia
seven colors OF red, orange yellow
green. blue, indigo and violet ar
spread out side by side. When the
spectra or streaks OF light are scienh
lcally investigated about 800 dark lines
are formed also among the colors. and
these lines represent shadows cast by
elemental Substances in the atmos
pheres Of the earth and the SUM- Light
made artihclally and not passing
through the atmosphere OF the earth
and the sun does not have these dark
lines.
BY means OF the speetroscope, a grad
ually invented instrument now IN use
but credited 10 several scientists wei
known elements have been compelled
20 register their addresses IN bands oI
light Among the first 20 write them
selves down were sodium, potassium
magnesium. calcium. chromium nieke
and iron. Ana the same apparatul
led 10 the discovery OF new metals
such as cesinm, rubldium and thallium
al thNNf tAA' ANAHA ~ UE lll AAE HtAlA
atmosphere Ry means Of the spectre
scope the one hundred milllonth par
OF a grain Of sodium in common sal
becomes as discernlbe and unmisiall
able as the side OF house This won
derful modern instrument has enabled
scientists to find out what the poo
pie who inhabit the planets IN tn,
solar system OF the dog star Sirius. 70
example. have 20 cat for without nj
trogen they could have no beans d
spring peas, without sulphur no mus
terd, horseradish aud water crosses o
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 fermente.
liQuors. Baltimore American.
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