The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-09
isNs OLD TIN CANS.
The Way They Finally Disappear From
Human Sight.


Human Sight.
Few people realize what becomes OF
all the old tin cans. fin paas, kettles,
buckets, coal hods and the like. They
nnally disappear from human Sight
and knowledge and are seen no more.
Science shows that they evaporate
When tin can Is cast away and FOR
eaken IL begins It's downward course
by becoming rusty The tin oxidlzes or.
In other words. unites with the oxygen
surrounding # In the atmosphere. and
the oxide OF tin gradually takes leave
Of the iron BY evaporating into the air
while some Of Il is washed away by
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 oxidiges and becomes the
familiar reddish brown substance
known as iron rust ghe metals have
no wills Of their own. no afiiniiies. tno
Understandings, and therefore no IN
tertions as to their present or future
course. They do nothing OF them
selver. But electrical forces do their
wor' 'or them. These forces unite the
ntots Of the metals with those Of the
oxygen. Then the molecules Of these
oxi6es are carried away by tie atrios
phc ic electricity and disposed Of AZ
corting to circumstances
II small bottle or other piece OF
glaas be placed on damp ground and
an old wornout tin bucket Is turned
over It. the particles Of iron oxide win
be taken away 10y electric currents
from the old bucket and will be de-
posted partly on the glass. the re
mainder eo'ty into the air and the
earth Deposits OF iron and other met
ais are thus carried around by cleo.
tflcity 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 rs 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
nosphere around the sun and the
stars If ray OF sunlight is bent out
Of It's course. as It is by drops Of water
in the case 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 scienti
lcally investigated about 800 dark lines
are formed also among the colors. aud
these lines represent shadows cast by
elemental substances in the atmos.
pheres Of the earth arI f1a sun. Light
made artiheially anS abt passing
through the atmosphere Of the earth
and 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
20 vegster their addresses in bands OF
light Among the first to write them.
selves down were sodium. potassium.
magnesium. calcium chromium, nickel
and iron, And the same apparatus
led to the discovery OF new metals.
such as cesium. rubidium and thallium.
All these are found to be In the suns
atmosphere BY means OF the spectre
scope the one hundred milli0nth part
of 2 grain Of sodium in common salt
becomes rs dlscernible and uninistak-
able as the side OF house. This won
derful modern instrument has enabled
scientists to find ont what the peo-
pie who inhabit the planets in the
solar system of the dog star Sirius. FOR
example. have to eat for without nj
trogen they could have no beans or
spring peas, without sulphur no mus
tard, horseradish and water crosses. or
anything Of the kind. although the peo
pie would be confined TO vegetable diet
They would also be without light bis
cult for breakfast or any fermented
liquors.- Baltimore American